Norway’s only male contemplative community of the Cistercian Trappist order consecrated its new church in December, inaugurating a brand-new monastery in the Trondheim Fjord, an inlet of the Norwegian ...

A Catholic monk in Kentucky has come out publicly as a transgender man and claims to be the first person in his position to do so. Brother Christian Matson, 39, a Catholic hermit in the Diocese of ...

The Catholic Church is celebrating 150 years of ministry in Oklahoma with two sesquicentennial Masses, at St. Gregory's Abbey ...

A Catholic monk came out as transgender this month, saying the church had "to deal with" trans Catholics. On May 17, Brother Christian Matson, a Catholic monk in Kentucky, told Religion News Service, ...

The verdict came a week after the same jury awarded $5 million in compensatory damages to a former student who said a monk ...

A Catholic diocese in the U.S. has shown support for a monk who announced this month that he was coming out as transgender. On Tuesday, the Catholic Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, issued a statement ...

"We must demand institutions do more to protect children,” the plaintiff said following the historic trial's conclusion.

KERENS, Texas - Here in cow country about 70 miles southeast of Dallas, amid scattered pecan trees and sloping fields of milkweed, six monks have come to live and pray. OSCAR DURAND/DMN John Tran, 8, ...

The first civil trial against the church in the state involved the former Delbarton School student who said he was sexually ...

In Ways of Confucius and of Christ: From Prime Minister of China to Benedictine Monk, Lu recounts the details of his ...

An Oct. 11 fire severely damaged the 17th-century Bernaga Monastery outside of Milan in northern Italy, forcing 21 cloistered ...