We’re sitting in the office of Trappist Caskets, just a short walk from New Melleray Abbey in Dubuque, Iowa. Sam is a layman, not a monk, but he works with the consecrated men as the general ...
But I always think of her as pink. And now a writing assignment about silent travel has brought me to a Trappist monastery in rural Kentucky for a week. You don’t have to be Catholic to stay ...
LOUISVILLE, July 21. -- A week ago Brother Stanislaus, clad in the white cowl of the Trappist monk, sent up his prayers in the quaint Abbey of Gethsemane. Today, as Oscar Bachstutz, he is in ...
The Trappist order of monks was born in the 17th century, in La Grande Trappe Abbey in Normandy. The Abbot there wanted his monks to adhere to the strict Rule of St. Benedict – an ancient guide ...
The contented workers were the Trappist monks of St. Joseph’s Abbey, and their thriving jelly business (1,230,000 jars a year) is typical of a fascinating—and rapidly growing-phenomenon ...
These were just a few of the stories told the past week at the Cameo Cinema, which hosted the FORK2FILM Festival in St.