Smithsonian Magazine

Ten Isolated, Gravity-Defying Monasteries You Can Visit Around the World

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 ...
Time

Religion: The Affluent Monasteries

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 ...
The Washington Post

In Romania, The Color of Monasteries

Flights of angels greeted me as I entered Sucevita Monastery. Dozens of them, clad in a red that refuses to fade after more than 400 years. Before me was a monumental vision of Heaven and Hell, ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Could Latter-day Saint missionaries help save Catholic monasteries in the United States?

A question that may seem absurd at first merits further contemplation: Could missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints help save the Catholic monastic movement in the United ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Hear the Long-Lost Chants of English Monks Whose Monasteries Were Dissolved by Henry VIII

In the 16th century, England’s Henry VIII broke with the pope, established the Church of England and named himself its supreme head—a sequence of events now known as the Reformation. By that point, ...