Trappists, Sam Mulgrew tells me, “are very land-based.” We’re sitting in the office of Trappist Caskets, just a short walk from New Melleray Abbey in Dubuque, Iowa. Sam is a layman, not a monk, but he ...

Runners make their way up and down the 103 steps of Monks Mound at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville in 2013. Steve Nagy snagy@bnd.com Q: I recently made yet another visit to the ...

A cinemactress’s southern plantation last week became a Trappist monastery. To Conyers, Ga., 30 miles northeast of Atlanta, came 20 monks (10 priests, 3 clerics or students, 7 lay brothers), all ...

Koningshoeven Abbey in the Netherlands has launched an online platform for aspiring monks: eNovice. This digital novitiate is a world first, according to the Dutch Trappists. The purpose of this ...

Pope Francis greets Abbot General Eamon Fitzgerald during an audience with Trappists at the Vatican Sept. 23. The pope met those participating in the Trappists’ general chapter. (Credit: CNS ...

When Father Richard Layton struggles to live the 900-year-old Trappist ideal of silence, prayer and obedience, he finds inspiration outside the chapel in 12 graves marked by simple white crosses.

Life is not easy among the Trappists. The order known as the Cistercians of the Strict Observance is one of the most austere in the Roman Catholic Church. On ordinary days rising hour is 2 a.m. (it is ...

When the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance left Oka, Quebec, to escape suburban sprawl, they left behind an oversized, aging building. Their new Trappist abbey, nested in the forests and ...

A COLLECTIVE of 16 artists including those from the Upper Highway Area, working in various media, will be hosting an exhibition, Trailing the Trappists, at St Anne’s Hall, in Mariannhill from November ...