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CULLMAN, Alabama - St. Bernard Abbey has announced three monks who will take their monastic vows in August. One monk is taking his first monastic vows, while two other monks are taking their final ...

Choosing monastic life can sound simple from the outside. It isn't. How to become a monk usually means years of practice, testing, and daily life under clear ...

Lessons on intentional living from the modern monastic movement. The most tasteful invitation to contemplative prayer I have ever experienced was in a garden next to a charming British mansion. Along ...

Buddhist monks follow a lot of rules – 253 in one tradition, 200 in another. As the story goes, all of these rules were made by the Buddha himself. However, he did not announce them all at once, like ...

Prohibiting a monk from registering at the bar on the grounds that the statuses of monk and lawyer are incompatible is contrary to EU law, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled.

Poverty, chastity and obedience were the three ‘essential vows’ to a religious life - all part of many people’s current experience These days the public is enjoined to forgo any “non-essential” ...