PARIS -- French police are searching for a masked gunman after an elderly woman was stabbed to death in a retirement home for monks in southern France, the national gendarme service said Friday.An ...

A masked gunman burst into a retirement home for monks in southern France late Thursday and killed an elderly woman with a knife, according to the French gendarmerie.

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation announced the creation of The Anna Trust, a new nonprofit organization in Rome that supports a healthy, dignified agin ...

Turin, Italy, Aug 29, 2008 / 09:46 am. On Wednesday hooded attackers assaulted Franciscan monks at a monastery in the Alps foothills near Turin, leaving one priest severely injured and the three ...

With elderly brothers at the Christ in the Desert — the oldest is 95 — a coronavirus outbreak could have proved a death sentence. Advertisement To protect themselves, the monks blocked the ...

Others decided to remain unmarried and care for elderly parents or other relatives. By the 12th century, single women could also choose to live as solitary hermits, not in a desert or forest but ...

D. Paul Sullins, a priest and sociologist at The Catholic University of America, said his belief that priests with children may be more numerous than priests who abuse children is based on common ...

Unlike some other Catholic monks, such as Jesuits and Dominicans, Cistercians take a vow of stability that commits them to their brothers, and to one place, for life — and beyond.

CANON CITY, Colo. -- One by one, the monks enter the chapel through a stained-glass door. The church bells ring out, signaling the start of midday prayer. At one time, more than 90 monks crowded ...

PARIS — French police are searching for a masked gunman after an elderly woman was stabbed to death in a retirement home for monks in southern France, the national gendarme service said Friday.

ROME, January 22, 2025--The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation announced the creation of The Anna Trust, a new nonprofit organization in Rome that supports a healthy, dignified aging process for Catholic ...

Others decided to remain unmarried and care for elderly parents or other relatives. By the 12th century, single women could also choose to live as solitary hermits, not in a desert or forest but ...