Pluscarden Abbey has always intrigued me. Just 15 minutes from my home in Elgin, it is Britain’s only medieval monastery ...
October 23, 2025 by Glastonbury Abbey Glastonbury Abbey invites Catholic men who feel drawn to a deeper relationship with God ...
Casamari Abbey in Italy is a gem of Cistercian-Gothic art, whose stones have been imbued with the prayers of monks over the centuries. Here, the monks have dedicated their lives to the vows of ...
Tucked into the woods near Covington, St. Joseph Abbey hums with a quiet rhythm — prayer, work and a deep sense of purpose.
St. Mary's Abbey, the order of Benedictine Catholic brothers that runs Delbarton school. (Bob Karp / USA Today Network file) ...
On Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, you’ll find a sweet bakery, Jampot, run by monks. We ordered the Poorrock Abbey traditional sourdough fruitcake. In a monastery tucked on the Lake Superior shore of ...
In a bid to boost their numbers, an audacious conservation effort has begun at Westminster Abbey. The Abbey's College Garden has been continuously cultivated for almost 900 years. It is in this ...
There are no longer Trappist monks at the abbey in Algeria's Tibhirine made infamous by the slaughter of seven men who served there during the country's brutal civil war. Members of the Chemin Neuf ...
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The Drunken Life of a Medieval Monk

Compared to the hard life of a medieval peasant the life of a monk must have been a doddle. Right? Well, no not really.
The Benedictine community at Keizersberg Abbey in Leuven, Belgium, has been temporarily dissolved following allegations of abusive behavior among adults, according to an official declaration released ...
Delbarton, an elite all-boys Catholic prep school in northern New Jersey where several former students have come forward to allege abuse at the hands of the Benedictine order’s monks, could soon find ...