My writer friend Paul Kingsnorth tips me off to a marvelous project in rural Ireland: the establishment of an Orthodox women’s monastery by some Romanian nuns. The Orthodox Monastery of the ...

COUNTY MEATH, IRELAND—The Irish Independent reports that archaeologists led by Geraldine Stout have uncovered pottery; the bones of cows, sheep, cats, and dogs; seeds; nuts; a key; a timber dash-urn ...

Redemptorist Father John Hanna in the library of Clonard Monastery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which hosted the peace talks leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. (Credit: Claire Giangravè.) ...

An Oklahoma Catholic Benedictine community has opened what may be the first monastery to open in Ireland since 1536. The religious community in the priory has been steadily growing since 2012 and ...

The second day of Brian Slocum's Ireland trip takes him to a 6th century Christian monastery. Make sure to check back often for Brian's videos!

A U.S. Benedictine community has planted roots in the Emerald Isle, becoming the first new monastery in the Diocese of Meath since the Reformation. Above and below, the monks pray at Mass and have ...

Editor’s Note: EWTN News In Depth correspondent Colm Flynn recently traveled to Bobbio, Italy, to share some amazing facts about an Irish saint. Below is an adapted transcribed report, printed with ...

COUNTY DONEGAL, IRELAND—A monastic enclosure dating to the early seventh century has been uncovered at Drunholm, where tradition claims Christian St. Ernan, nephew of St. Columba, was buried ca. A.D.

A former country mansion in Co Meath is set to be transformed into a monastery as part of a $1 million development by two Benedictine monks. The Irish Examiner reports the monks purchased the property ...

A security operation on a suspicious device found near a monastery in west Belfast has ended. Army bomb experts were called in to deal with a suspicious van abandoned in the Clonard Monastery car park ...