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Meet the monks who decided to go green years before Laudato Si

Berryville, Va., Dec 27, 2015 / 05:20 pm (CNA).- Years before Pope Francis’ recent ecology encyclical was published, a Trappist monastery in Virginia went back to its spiritual roots by embracing environmental stewardship. “This really is a re-founding,” Fr. James Orthmann of Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Va. told CNA, a “real renewal and a… Read More ›