Molly Burhans had a stunning realization during her visit to a Benedictine monastery in Pennsylvania: The Catholic Church owns or stewards a significant amount of land — roughly the equivalent of the ...

We're talking about the 7th century when the story says a young monk living in a monastery in France became the first to stumble on this way of preserving cheese and turning it into something divine.

The layout of Garden of the Cimiez Monastery (Jardin du Monastere de Cimiez) has not changed since its original construction in 1546, when it was used by the monks as their orchard and vegetable ...