BERLIN (Reuters) - Children were "sadistically tormented and also sexually abused" at a Catholic monastery in Pope Benedict's native Bavaria, according to a new report commissioned by the Roman ...

Brother Luke, an Orthodox Christian monk, holds his 10-week-old German shepherd Pyrena on the grounds of the New Skete monastery, where he directs the dog breeding program that has provided both ...

BERLIN (AP) — A Cistercian monastery that's existed for almost 900 years in what is now western Germany is closing down for good, due to a shortage of monks. The Himmerod Abbey, founded in 1134 by the ...

Archaeologists excavated a ruined monastery in Posa and uncovered 15 densely packed burials dating between 500 and 800 years ago, photos show. Photo from the State Office for Heritage Management and ...

ALTOMUENSTER, Germany – It was filthy, cramped and in major disarray, but when art historian Eva Lindqvist Sandgren entered the library in Altomuenster Abbey, off-limits to all but the German ...

The morning sun was burning through the mist as I traveled east on Highway 22. My guest, a fellow teacher from Idaho, was amazed as he saw the medieval towers and spires poking through the clouds. "A ...