CULLMAN, Alabama - St. Bernard Abbey has its largest class of postulants to enter the monastery in more than 50 years. On June 24, six men entered as postulants, the first stage of monastic formation, ...

CULLMAN, Alabama - St. Bernard Abbey has announced three monks who will take their monastic vows in August. One monk is taking his first monastic vows, while two other monks are taking their final ...

Brother Pachomius Alvarado, O.S.B. prepares bread at St. Bernard. CULLMAN, Ala. — Catholicism is sensual. It’s a religion that engages the senses to bring mankind closer to the Divine. Taste is, of ...

“The only way to find out anything about the joys of contemplation is by experience.” — Thomas Merton, author and Trappist monk I chose a route that would take me along small two-lane county roads ...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to exchange your lifestyle and become a monk? It's a radical move by anybody's standards. One Cistercian monastery in Leicestershire is finding no shortage ...

Leicestershire monks are starring in a new film, which focuses on life at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey - the only Trappist monastery in England and the home of the UK's first Trappist beer. 'Outside The ...

William Henry Cardinal O’Connell, Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, never goes to the movies, rarely has films exhibited in his Commonwealth Avenue home, and on those infrequent occasions seldom ...