Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the murder of Br. Roger, the founder of the ecumenical Taize community in France. He was stabbed to death during a prayer service at the age of 90. Vatican ...

After 18 years as head of the Ecumenical Monastic Community Taizé, Brother Alois Loeser has chosen a successor. According to the community, after consulting other brothers, the French Catholic has ...

Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part blog series. Click here to read part two. Recently, the ecumenical monastic community of Taizé celebrated three anniversaries. It marked 100 years since ...

CHICAGO (RNS) Every year, some 100,000 pilgrims trek to the Taize ecumenical community in France where the biggest attraction is the music, a throwback — way, way back, about 1,500 years or so — to ...

The enormous ecumenical impact of the Taizé community, with its haunting music and its tradition of silent prayer and meditative chant, is astonishing given that the community never promoted itself.

Imagine the scene. Silence. Church lights dim. On the altar table and the floor and steps around it, dozens of candles flicker, some atop pillars of pink and purple, the Advent colors. In pews, 50 or ...