Fleeing ISIS, an order of Dominican monks had to leave much behind. But when Father Najeeb Michaeel helped the Christian community escape, he took... Piece By Piece, Monks Scramble To Preserve Iraq's ...

In 1221, an order of Dominican monks cultivated herbs in a monastery garden in Florence, Italy, to produce medicinal balms and creams for the sick. Such acts of charity were not uncommon in the 13th ...

Georges Barrois, born into a Roman Catholic family in Charleville, France, became a Dominican monk and was ordained a priest when he was 25. In 1941, after 18 years as a priest, and some long, painful ...

One morning in 1498, a Dominican monk named Girolamo Savonarola said a last “Mass in the chapel of Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. Then he and two fellow Dominicans were dragged outside to a cross-shaped ...