The site "is a lovely place," writes Mike O'Brien. "The chant of birdsong serenades the resting monks within a cathedral of ...

I will never forget my first visit to a monastery. I was travelling through Kentucky for a speaking engagement and made a short visit to Gethsemani Abbey, the Trappist monastery where Thomas Merton ...

When COVID-19 led health officials to urge people to shelter in place, it even affected the already-cloistered monks at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers. Public prayers and services with ...

In 2023, my wife Liz embarked on a self-guided spiritual retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County. She returned with an armful of books and souvenirs from the ...

NEW HAVEN, Ky. — Nestled on 2,200 acres in the hills of Nelson County, Ky., the 166-year-old Abbey of Gethsemani is known for its peace and tranquility. But now the oldest operating monastery in ...

NPR's Noah Adams talks with Brother Rafael, a monk at Kentucky's Abbey of Gethsemani, about balancing the monastic life with citizen participation.

Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are solely the opinion of the writer and not the Daily Journal. One of the wisest men I’ve ever met is Father Matthew Kelty, a monk at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. I ...

Thomas Merton's hermitage at the Abbey of Gethsemani. Source: Bryan Sherwood/Wikimedia Commons This has been a rough year. The observation that the 2018 news cycle has been exhausting and infuriating ...

A monk's life is still a simple one of prayer and austerity, yet many monasteries have moved online for business, communication and even headhunting purposes. "All the Trappist houses in America are ...