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Rail’s book delivers a lively stand-alone seminar on temptation — as well as the culture and history of the much-maligned liquor and its reputation for causing madness and murder. Credit ...

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More than half a dozen widely popular books and a TV series later, the monks today train about 120 dogs a year in the monastery, said Brother Christopher, the prior and director of the training ...

More than half a dozen widely popular books and a TV series later, the monks today train about 120 dogs a year in the monastery, said Brother Christopher, the prior and director of the training ...

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese is embarking on a spiritual journey through the lives of revered saints, from ...

When they had sung their last note, the monks walked two at a time back down ... negative about the city,” he said. He quoted the Book of Revelation, which predicts that a new city of Jerusalem ...

If you've felt setbacks and mental hurdles in your attempts to meditate every day, two experts gave our science writer a ...