A cinemactress’s southern plantation last week became a Trappist monastery. To Conyers, Ga., 30 miles northeast of Atlanta, came 20 monks (10 priests, 3 clerics or students, 7 lay brothers), all ...
In 1848, 44 Trappist monks from France braved the wide ocean to reach the New World. Upon arriving in New Orleans, they booked a steamboat to Louisville, Kentucky, where they journeyed inland to a ...
In the late 1960s, a young NCR reporter named Colman McCarthy saw the emerging decline of American Trappist monasteries and offered a diagnosis: The monastic life is not active enough. Looking back ...
In a file photo, Trappist Father Luke Kot participates in lauds, or morning prayer, at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Ga., March 9, 2009. (Credit: Michael Alexander/Georgia Bulletin via ...
When COVID-19 led health officials to urge people to shelter in place, it even affected the already-cloistered monks at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers. Public prayers and services with ...