The number of people attending confession has increased at Mount Melleray in recent weeks, with some sessions lasting ...

Mellifont Abbey is steeped in history as the first ever Cistercian Monastery in Ireland and was founded in 1142 by St. Malachy, Archbishop of Armagh. It played a key role in the medieval monastic ...

Father Jan Rossey, who last year became the Abbot of Caldey Abbey, which sits on an island off the coast of Pembrokeshire in west Wales and is home to Cistercian Order monks, admitted that “it ...

Father Jan Rossey, who last year became the Abbot of Caldey Abbey, which is off the coast of Pembrokeshire in west Wales and home to Cistercian Order monks, commissioned a review into alleged ...

The abbey on Caldey Island is home to seven Cistercian monks [BBC] The review said other sex offenders had spent time on Caldey, including Paul Ashton, who lived there for seven years using an ...

Caldey Island Abbey is home to Cistercian Order monks (Alamy/UK) The head of an abbey on a remote Welsh island has apologised for the “great suffering” endured by children who were abused by a ...

The head of an abbey on a remote Welsh island has apologised for the “great suffering” endured by children who were abused by a late monk, and the “culture of secrecy and cover-up” that ...

Caldey Abbey commissioned the report ... Caldey is owned by a group of Cistercian monks and tens of thousands of tourists visit each year. As well as the monks, there are lay people who live ...