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In the pantheon of Catholic religious orders—Carmelites, Claretians, Camoldolese, Cistercians, Capuchin and Conventual Franciscans, Clunaics, Canons Regular, Clerics Regular—the Carthusians stand out ...
The world-renowned “elixir of life” has been around for centuries, but its secret recipe — which has nearly disappeared several times — has never been revealed by the monks who made it famous.
In our noisy and technologically correct secular society, mystery and silence are as absent as they are secretly craved. Two of the most austere Western monastic orders to distill this countercultural ...
For several years, a book about the Carthusians, the Catholic Church’s most austere monastic order, has sat on my shelf begging to be read. Last week, I finally finished the tale that traces the lives ...
One might not expect a book about Carthusians, “the Western world’s most austere monastic order,” to be a page turner, but this sensitively written volume is just that. The author reconstructs the pre ...
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The monks' silence is interrupted only by the bells (photo: Philip Groening) An unlikely film has been filling cinemas in Germany in recent weeks: a three-hour documentary with hardly a single spoken ...
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