While for many students at the University of St. Thomas (UST) in St. Paul, Minnesota, a recent warm September Saturday meant a break from classes, college seminarian Sean Czaplewski and 35 other ...

Before Tom Abel was a husband, a father of five and a counselor, he was a Trappist monk. Never mind that his post-monastery years number more than double the 20 he spent cloistered, his religious life ...

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In 2023, my wife Liz embarked on a self-guided spiritual retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery in Nelson County. She returned with an armful of books and souvenirs from the ...

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A second chance at life. That’s what three endangered Hawaiian monk seals now have as they return to life in the wild at Midway Atoll. Wildlife officials rescued the three last year, when they were ...