All told, Trappist Caskets produces an average of 35 caskets a week. Although not all of the monks came to the abbey with prior woodworking skills, they and the new monks joining their ranks "are ...

Trappist Caskets offers two models -- simple and premium. Simple caskets are smooth on all sides. Premium caskets feature complex raised-panel joinery and shaped lids. Both come in two shapes -- ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa — Like most people, Trappist order monks and nuns in the Dubuque area have to find ways to pay the bills. Without much funding from their orders, their dioceses or the Vatican, the monks ...

PEOSTA, Iowa -- Some monks make cheesecakes to supplement their income. Others breed German shepherds or market Tex-Mex food. But the 36 monks at the New Melleray Abbey are marketing a more novel item ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A group of Roman Catholic monks in Iowa has donated a hand-crafted casket to the family of a 9-year-old girl killed in last weekend's mass shooting in Arizona. The casket for ...

Two rows of monks in long white robes stand in wooden stalls on either side of a neo-gothic church, their Gregorian chant echoing off the gray stone walls: "Glory be to the Father, and the Son, and ...

PEOSTA, Iowa - A cold southwest wind blew over the rolling Iowa countryside Thursday morning as about 20 people stood under a gray sky solemnly listening as Cistercian Trappist monk Alberic Farbolin ...

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. — “A year and a half ago, I could do anything — run the chain saw, cut up trees, use a backhoe.” Brother Joseph Swedo was bent forward in his chair, his rugged hands folded ...