MANZANITA – Pine Grove Community Club served as more of a temple than a neighborhood meeting hall last week. Lobsang Jinpa Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist master, commenced an empowerment ritual with a ...

Pope Francis said this love can be seen in the lives of contemplative monks and nuns who work and pray in silence for the whole Church. Pope Francis at his general audience in St Peter’s Square on ...

SPENCER, Mass. — For the last 63 years, the monks at St. Joseph’s Abbey in the Massachusetts town of Spencer have followed the same routine: prayers at 3:30 in the morning, work from 9 until noon, ...

Educated at Harvard and Yale in the liberal reformed traditions of Christianity as represented by Paul Tillich and H. Richard Niebuhr, King notes that his formal education familiarized him neither ...

As the bishop of Hong Kong blessed the new abbot of Our Lady of Joy Abbey, he expressed hope that more of Hong Kong´s busy people, especially young people, would share in the Trappists´ contemplative ...