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 ...

BERRYVILLE, VA – A tiny community of cloistered monks in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley had two big problems: one theological and the other ecological. First, the order of Trappist monks had ...

A pilgrimage will take place to Holy Cross Abbey on Sunday May 30. There will be a coach leaving The Square, Tullow at 11.00 a.m. The fare is ?10 per person. Please give your name as soon as ...