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 ...

This Halloween, my favorite Catholic cemetery, off the beaten path in rural Northern Utah, has transfigured into a much happier haunt. Pioneer monks from Kentucky's Gethsemani Abbey, where Thomas ...

I will never forget my first visit to a monastery. I was travelling through Kentucky for a speaking engagement and made a short visit to Gethsemani Abbey, the Trappist monastery where Thomas Merton ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- On Thursday morning, a former accountant and his wife pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges that they stole more than $1 million from an abbey. Officials say John Hutchins ...

NEW HAVEN, Ky. — Nestled on 2,200 acres in the hills of Nelson County, Ky., the 166-year-old Abbey of Gethsemani is known for its peace and tranquility. But now the oldest operating monastery in ...