Despite a life of exile, Colmcille’s appeal endures in the north and northwest of Ireland. On Iona, a small island on the west coast of Scotland, St. Colmcille ...

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 ...

The monastery, according to St. Benedict’s Rule, was supposed to be a “household of God,” but – given the presence of all-too-human frailty – the truth has been more complicated, according to Colmán Ó ...

Colmán Ó Clabaigh, O.S.B., a Benedictine monk of Glenstal Abbey, Co. Limerick, is spending the spring semester at Boston College as the Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies. A specialist in ...

A former country mansion in Co Meath is set to be transformed into a monastery as part of a $1 million development by two Benedictine monks. The Irish Examiner reports the monks purchased the property ...

“Although it is a somewhat formidable trip, it is by no means impossible to get out to the Great Skellig, which is by far the most interesting island off the Irish coast.” Steel engraved illustration ...

Much as we tend to think of the monasteries as essentially medieval, the monastic ideal was flourishing in the British Isles a full millennium before Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell ended the party in ...