DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A 9-year-old girl killed in last weekend's mass shooting in Arizona will be buried in a hand-crafted casket donated by a group of Roman Catholic monks in Iowa. Trappist Caskets ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Benedictine monks may keep selling plain, low-cost caskets from their monastery outside New Orleans, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, finding that a regulation that only ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An order of Benedictine monks sued Louisiana ...

Monks at St. Joseph Abbey are claiming a legal victory after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that an effort by funeral directors to prevent the monks for selling their handmade ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. NEW ORLEANS-- A federal court will decide whether an order of Benedictine monks can make and sell caskets without a state license ...

Shortly before 123 million voters picked a president, 38 Louisiana monks moved the judiciary toward a decision that could change American governance more than most presidents do. The monks’ cypress ...

It has always been the intention of the Trappist monks to pray. They still do. They pray vigils and readings and vespers for hours in daylight and darkness. But now they are making wooden caskets, too ...

PEOSTA — Every morning before the sun comes up, Brother Joseph is beginning his day. Brother Joseph, a Trappist Monk, is up by 4:30 a.m., heading out to start work in the New Melleray Abbey’s garden.