Monks has come up with a hardball tactic to pressure companies--while making a buck or two.
Now some monks are using their moral authority to serve a quite different end.
Barefoot monks holding alms bowls share the streets with scooters, battered cars and cycle rickshaws.
No word for the Latin accidia made so much of by monks under Benedict.
The thriving monastery houses 2, 855 monks, a school, a library and a medical clinic.
Gospels, created by monks on Northumberland's Holy Island in AD700, are currently in the British Library.
Tim Harrison, from John Lewis, said Oakgate's plans for the Monks Cross centre were ideal.
Marks and Spencer has already said it will open a big store at Monks Cross.
Monks old enough to know better are getting caught up in the excitement, too.
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This take on detachment and the pitfalls of identification is not unique to monks.
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Among other things, it calls on monks to be self-sufficient through their own labor.
If the monks at Saint Sixtus wanted to ramp up production they already could have.
More than a century ago, the rules were changed and monks were told they could marry.
Work out how they did it, and we can all become nuns and monks.
Wandering Buddhist monks, passing through the dense jungles, occasionally came upon the awesome ruins.
In Belgium, beer-making is virtually a religion, so it makes sense that the best brews are made by monks.
The total included large sums apparently from monks who have taken vows of poverty.
On village roads, cycle rickshaws and monks with parasols amble by fruit vendors and car part stalls.
Gigantic gilded Buddhas lined the path, which I shared with 12-year-old monks laughing in their saffron robes.
Christmas is rapidly approaching and each year my thoughts return to the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey.
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Of the 22 injured, many are monks, and they are mostly suffering from burns, our correspondent reports.
Caldey's economy relies on summer tourists visiting the Cistercian monastery where the monks make chocolate and perfume.
The monks there said they had enough food for two days and no prospects of getting more.
Trade unionists included Jamie Webster, the convener at the Govan shipyards and TUC general secretary John Monks.
Some sat with bleak, numb stares as small piles of food were guarded by young apprentice monks.
The monks at Skanda Vale have said they have isolated Shambo and would treat Shambo with antibiotics.
John Monks, general secretary of the European Trades Union Congress, complains that Britain has defanged the charter.
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The core manuscripts of antiquity were preserved by Islamic civilization, and to a lesser extent, by Irish monks.
It has two towers, the larger one built by parishioners and the smaller one erected by Benedictine monks.
Monks across Europe, in places like Ireland, Belgium and southern Germany, have carefully crafted renowned beers for centuries.
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