The morning sun was burning through the mist as I traveled east on Highway 22. My guest, a fellow teacher from Idaho, was amazed as he saw the medieval towers and spires poking through the clouds. "A ...

BERLIN — Bavarian Catholic church authorities said Thursday they have closed Germany’s last Bridgettine Order abbey at the request of the Vatican — renewing concerns about what will happen to the ...

Archaeologists excavated a ruined monastery in Posa and uncovered 15 densely packed burials dating between 500 and 800 years ago, photos show. Photo from the State Office for Heritage Management and ...

BERLIN (AP) — Bavarian Catholic church authorities said Thursday they have closed Germany’s last Bridgettine Order abbey at the request of the Vatican — renewing concerns about what will happen to the ...

Brewing tradition of nearly 1,000 years at Weltenburg Abbey in Bavaria to be bought up by Munich company Schneider Weisse The world’s oldest monastic brewery, Germany’s Weltenburger, is being sold to ...

ALTOMUENSTER, Germany — It was filthy, cramped and in major disarray, but when art historian Eva Lindqvist Sandgren entered the library in Altomuenster Abbey, off-limits to all but the German ...

head Bishop Nikolaus Schneider (L) walks to the cloister with Pope Benedict XVI in the Augustinian Monestry (Augustinierkloster) in Erfurt September 23, 2011/Max Rossi_ Pope Benedict, visiting the ...