Some monasteries make jelly, creamed honey, even world-class beer. For the last 25 years, the Trappist monks of Assumption Abbey in the foothills of the Ozarks have made fruitcake. They're less ...

In monastic circles, some things — prayer and contemplation, for example — are sacred. But cherry-studded fruitcake? Seems those ubiquitous fruit-filled loaves have become a path to financial solvency ...

The peal of the church bell splits the predawn darkness like a summons from God himself. The hermits of Big Sur rise from their beds, slip on white robes and emerge one by one from their quarters — ...

When the monks bake at the New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, the bees hover outside the kitchen windows, drawn by the heady scent of warm maple syrup. This time of year, orders for holiday ...

As the L.A. Times reports, the monks lost a big donor a few years back (he died), and fruitcake sales fell from about 9,000 cakes a year a decade ago to just 5,000 last year, after consumers ...

AVA, Mo. (RNS) Some monasteries make jelly, creamed honey, even world-class beer. For the last 25 years, the Trappist monks of Assumption Abbey here in the foothills of the Ozarks have made fruitcake.

Fruitcake orders are entered into the computer at Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Va. on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. The monks here have been baking and selling fruitcake since the 1980s. The bake from ...

AVA, Mo. — On this autumn morning, when the chapel bell tolls, a moonlit mist shrouds the monks’ cloister in the thick woods of the Ozarks. Just before the “Great Silence” ends, at 3:15 a.m., Brother ...

Will it be fudge or fruitcake? You get to make the call when you visit two homes for spiritual men in Yamhill County. Both make food products they sell, to help pay bills, and both have public guest ...

BIG SUR — The peal of the church bell splits the predawn darkness like a summons from God himself. The hermits of Big Sur rise from their beds, slip on white robes and emerge one by one from their ...