A Buddhist monastery tucked away in McKinney is a safe haven for people of all faiths seeking mindfulness through meditation.

The lost music of monks is set to be performed after 500 years of silence. The performance is part of a project led by the University of Exeter, which uncovered rare monastic chants in a 15th-century ...

For the first time in nearly five centuries, Buckland Abbey in Devon will resonate once more with the sacred sounds of monastic music, thanks to research into a rare 15th-century manuscript and a ...

R are medieval music, discovered within a 15th-century book, will resonate through Buckland Abbey in Devon this August, bringing the sound of monks back for the first time in 500 years. The "plaintive ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered “sensational” artifacts beneath a historic monastery in Poland — offering a glimpse into monastic life in the 18th century.

A monk who sexually abused two pupils brought the church and the Roman Catholic boarding school where he taught into "serious disrepute", a judge said. Michael James Callaghan, known as Father ...

Luther, the renegade monk, was 41. Von Bora, the runaway nun, was 26. Marking their 500th wedding anniversary, scholars are commemorating von Bora and Luther as role models for ecclesiastical ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some manuscripts, rather than skins from the local boars and deer ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin.