As its community ages, New Melleray Abbey in Dubuque County has decided that it will no longer accept new members, which ...

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At Mepkin Abbey, a driveway lined with live oaks invites visitors into a sanctuary of silence where Catholic monks have ...

Thirteen miles down an unmarked dirt road quietly sits the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, along the Chama River in Northern New Mexico. The monastery is home to 15 monks, some livestock, and a ...

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