In the past, monks have set themselves on fire to protest injustice. The monks at St. Joseph Abbey of Covington are choosing a subtler route, through America’s legal system. The 121-year-old Catholic ...

In the basement of an old factory building on East Main Street, a small, unadorned space with a cracked concrete floor serves as a showroom. Urns gathered from area flea markets fill the shelves.

NEW ORLEANS (CN) - An order of monks can sell handmade caskets without a Louisiana funeral home license, a federal judge ruled. The monks of St. Joseph, a Catholic monastery of 38 monks located in ...

Scientist, artist, serial entrepreneur Luc Nadeau, of Longmont, a 44-year-old father of two, is one of those people who can do just about anything he sets his mind or his hands to. The multi-property ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) A group of Catholic monks can continue selling their handmade caskets after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Louisiana funeral directors. “We really can now move ...

NEW ORLEANS (RNS) A group of Catholic monks who sued for the right to sell handmade caskets will head back to court this week, this time fending off an appeal from the state funeral industry after a ...

GREENVILLE, Mich. – A local couple is offering families a bit of hope during some of their darkest times, making handmade caskets for people who can’t afford a commercial one. Mary Smith and her ...

The walnut planks used to make Caroline Found’s casket grew for 120 years in a quiet northeast Iowa forest. Tucked away behind a hulking limestone monastery, the tree was prayed over by the monks of ...

After just three hours of testimony and arguments, the federal trial involving St. Tammany Parish monks suing for their right to sell handmade caskets to the public concluded early Monday afternoon in ...

(RNS) A group of woodworking Louisiana monks is celebrating after a federal appeals court ruled they can sell simple handmade caskets – and local funeral directors can’t stop them. (RNS) A group of ...

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In a sometimes harshly worded ruling, a panel of federal appellate judges Tuesday evening smacked down the Louisiana funeral board's continued attempts to prevent the St. Joseph Abbey monks from ...