A group of Maronite Catholic monks is bringing a taste of their Eastern religious tradition to Castle Rock. The group, formally known as the Maronite Monks of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, is raising $3 ...

A rainbow arched over the building site of the future Sacred Heart Maronite Monastery in Castle Rock, Wash., as the monks of the Order of Jesus, Mary and Joseph surveyed the land. The laypeople ...

Maronite Bishop Mounir Khairallah on a conviction to continue the Christian presence. Above, Maronite Bishop Mounir Khairallah, who chairs the Maronite patriarchal committee of the Maronite ‘Year of ...

Thousands of Maronite Catholics shut down the streets of the Sydney suburb of Punchbowl to welcome relics of Lebanon's most well-known saint to their new permanent home in Australia. Queues of ...

Father Adib Salameh, pastor of St. Anthony & St. George Maronite Church in Wilkes-Barre, stands beside a shrine to St. Sharbel, a Lebanese monk who is beloved by the Maronite community. Father Salameh ...

Previously "venerable" Maronite brother Estephan Nehme was beatified on Sunday morning in Lebanon. The Holy Father remembered Blessed Estephan after the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square, ...

GHOSTA, LEBANON -- The town of Ghosta lies some 950 meters above sea level in Mount Lebanon Governate. In modern times it was the hometown of painter Daoud Corm (1852-1930), journalist and founder of ...

Popes once grandly divided up the world, while abbots governed dukedoms the size of Rhode Island. Since then, temporal authority among religious leaders has mostly gone out of style. Last week a ...