Following a stay at Holy Cross Abbey, I feel obliged to confess: Life without telephones, televisions, radios or other earthly distractions was, at first, jolting. I adjusted by focusing on the ...

Now fewer than 10 come most days. That's not enough to keep Holy Cross Abbey's 79-year-old monastic tradition alive -- at least not in its current form. In an unusual move, the aging Benedictine ...

Holy Cross Abbey has been restored and is now a parish church. Three thousand people gathered for the reopening of the 800 year old abbey near Thurles in County Tipperary. Welcome to the Parish of ...

Monks at Holy Cross Abbey struggle with embracing an intense sustainability initiative. Ecology meets theology. Saving Place, Saving Grace is the story of a Trappist monastery's struggle for ...