Pope Francis told Cistercians on Monday to embrace “the greater poverty of spirit and goods in order to be more available to the Lord.” “Today the experience of encountering diversity is a sign of the ...

A Cistercian abbey disbanded by the Vietnamese government almost three decades ago lives on as three new communities. The communist government in 1978 confiscated the abbey in Ho Chi Minh City and ...

Wisconsin Cistercians attribute their growing membership to young women seeking to live radically for God in a religious vocation. Valley of Our Lady Cistercian Monastery is attracting millennial ...

IN the midst of tight regulations governing social distancing and self-isolation as society struggles to work through the Covid-19 crisis, Cistercian monks and nuns in Ireland, and the world over, are ...

It is over 700 years since Cistercian monks first set foot on Irish soil, founding Mellifont Abbey outside Drogheda and soon spread throughout the country founding 40 abbeys for men. The Cistercians ...

The religious orders of the Cistercians built some of Europe’s finest architectural stuctures. Simple yet noble, these buildings were created for function rather than visual delight. One of the most ...

Norway’s only male contemplative community of the Cistercian Trappist order consecrated its new church in December, inaugurating a brand-new monastery in the Trondheim Fjord, an inlet of the Norwegian ...

Next Sunday, January 26th, 2025, will be a date of historic significance for one of Ireland’s oldest – and for hundreds of years most influential – religious orders, the Cistercians. On that date, the ...

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Episode: 1311 The Cistercian order, power technology, and innovation. Today, let’s talk about monks and waterwheels.