Celtic monasticism, which flourished in Ireland in the fifth, sixth, and seventh century, resembled Egyptian monasticism in its rigour and mysticism: Even the Celtic cross with a circle at the centre ...

The Rev. Seraphim Aldea is so committed to building the first Orthodox monastery in the Scottish isles in more than a millennium that he did something no monk searching for solitude would ever, ever ...

The monastic alternative, at least in the West, has become so deeply unfashionable that most people no longer consider the possibility, but there is, at least to me, something deeply appealing about ...