On top of Mount Equinox, 17 monks from all over the world live quietly, dedicating their lives to silence, solitude and contemplation. The Charterhouse of the Transfiguration, America s only ...

When he was only 13, Thomas Verner Moore knew what he wanted to be—a hermit. The son of a Louisville insurance man, young Tom Moore had had his imagination fired by a book on the so-called Desert ...

What many people don’t know about Chartreuse is that the Carthusian monks have made it since 1737. (Yes, you read that right.) Named after the monks’ Grande Chartreuse monastery, located in the ...

A group of French Carthusian monks are the only producers of Chartreuse—and despite high demand, they aren't planning to increase production. Karl Gruber via Wikimedia Commons underCC BY-SA 4.0 If ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Anthony Bancy: Intrigue swirls around the liquor known as Chartreuse, sometimes ...