Six of the 24 Orthodox Christian monasteries strewn across Meteora, a collection of massive stone pillars and rounded boulders in northwestern Greece, are still active more than 700 years after the ...

The area's also popular for adventure travel, including rock-climbing and rafting High above the Meteora landscape in the central region of Greece, 60 monks and nuns live in fabled monasteries perched ...

In Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his ...

In France, some are wondering if monastic life is entering its terminal phase. Closures are occurring with unprecedented ...

Atop vertical columns of rock in central Greece, the monasteries of Meteora defy logic and inspire awe. Here's what they look like up close and inside. Geoffrey Morrison is a writer/photographer about ...

For almost 1,000 years, the English church grew up around its monasteries—a network of institutions that instructed the living, cared for the dying and prayed for the dead. Monasteries were locations ...

I recall once reading that the subject of the Industrial Revolution was like a well-squeezed orange. Not much juice left in it. Yet I constantly come across scholarship adding to what we know about ...