Reassurance comes from the abbey’s priests, who have been offering such reassurance to the community from the slopes of ...

National Broadband Ireland announces high-speed internet rollout to 552 premises on four offshore islands by summer 2025 ...

Winter is a prime time to venture out and discover the natural world, and you'll reap the benefits of absorbing the gentle ...

Founded around the year 720 as an hermitage, Disentis Monastery was often the site of hard-fought battles - due to its location at the foot of the Lukmanier Pass. The foundation walls of two churches ...

There are now eight young Benedictine monks in formation at Quarr Abbey, situated near Ryde on the Isle of Wight and three more are expected to join later this year, writes Peter Jennings. Two ...

The review said victim testimonies dating from the 1970s suggested that Father Thaddeus Kotik, who died in 1992, was a “serial and prolific” child abuser on Caldey Island, a tiny community home to ...

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 island is home to a Cistercian Order of monks, who allegedly covered up abuse committed by former fathers on the island over several decades. Mr O’Connell launched the Caldey Island Survivors ...