VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis told Cistercians on Monday to embrace “the greater poverty of spirit and goods in order to be more available to the Lord.” “Today the experience of encountering diversity ...

Wisconsin Cistercians attribute their growing membership to young women seeking to live radically for God in a religious vocation. Valley of Our Lady Cistercian Monastery is attracting millennial ...

A Cistercian abbey disbanded by the Vietnamese government almost three decades ago lives on as three new communities. The communist government in 1978 confiscated the abbey in Ho Chi Minh City and ...

In his audience with the participants in the General Chapter of Order, Pope Francis urges them to continue their "assiduous prayer" as “lovers of prayer” dedicated to "sobriety" to overcome today's ...

IN the midst of tight regulations governing social distancing and self-isolation as society struggles to work through the Covid-19 crisis, Cistercian monks and nuns in Ireland, and the world over, are ...

On a tree-clad ridge near Cumberland, R. I. lies a cluster of austere grey Gothic buildings, laid up in stone during the past 35 years by white-robed members of the Order of Cistercian Monks of the ...

Next Sunday, January 26th, 2025, will be a date of historic significance for one of Ireland’s oldest – and for hundreds of years most influential – religious orders, the Cistercians. On that date, the ...

Father Roch Kereszty, originally from Hungary, has been at Cistercian Abbey in Irving, Texas, for more than 50 years. Hunter Johnson TNS DALLAS -- Fr. Roch Kereszty may seem like just another monk at ...

Fr. Roch Kereszty may seem like just another monk at Cistercian Abbey in Irving, Texas. Nothing is unusual about how he leans on his cane; nothing different about how he’ll greet you with a warm smile ...