John Cooper receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. “This house is rotten to the core,” snarls Jack Barak, Thomas Cromwell’s man of business, as he condemns the Benedictine ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Initial reports that the centuries-old St. Catherine's Monastery would be closed were denied, but Orthodox leaders remain concerned that the monastery's new status will interfere with ...

Explore the history of the Benedictine monastery at Westminster Abbey, from the time when the first twelve monks arrived in 960AD until the dissolution of the monastery under Henry VIII in 1540.

In the sixth century, Christian monks built St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. The monastery is believed to be located at the very place where God appeared to Moses via a burning ...

Trabzon, Turkey (CNN) — If its ancient walls could talk, Sümela Monastery in eastern Turkey would have quite a few stories to tell. Since its founding in the 4th century CE by some of the earliest ...

A 2017 picture of the 6th century Saint Catherine's monastery, established at the biblical site of the burning bush in the Sinai — Pedro Costa Gomes Egypt and Greece sought to ease tensions over the ...

The monks who laid the first bricks of St. Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass built their chapel and cloisters in the 1950s to stand through centuries of Catholic worship and prayer. The ones who ...