A Catholic monk in Kentucky has come out publicly as a transgender man and claims to be the first person in his position to do so. Brother Christian Matson, 39, a Catholic hermit in the Diocese of ...

At their peak in the 1960s, 60 monks lived, prayed and worked together on the property that overlooks the Shenandoah River.

A Catholic monk came out as transgender this month, saying the church had "to deal with" trans Catholics. On May 17, Brother Christian Matson, a Catholic monk in Kentucky, told Religion News Service, ...

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 ...

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A Catholic diocese in the U.S. has shown support for a monk who announced this month that he was coming out as transgender. On Tuesday, the Catholic Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, issued a statement ...

Franciscan monks in charge of churches in the Holy Land are struggling to keep pilgrimage sites open for Christians stuck amid the ongoing conflict. The Custody of the Holy Land, the Catholic priory ...

Back in his college days, Benedictine Brother Maximilian Anderson was a self-described “knucklehead.” By his junior and senior years at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, though, he had embraced ...