Chartreuse -- a color better known these days as "Brat Green" -- gets its name not from a herb or a flower as one might expect, but from an alcoholic beverage. More accurately, chartreuse gets its ...

Meeting the global demand for their historic herbal liqueur got to be too much for the Carthusian monks who have worked and prayed silently in the Alps north of Grenoble, France for centuries. Earlier ...

Word of mouth is the ultimate form of marketing. Which could be a little difficult if your most knowledgeable staff members have taken a vow of silence. The owners and producers of Chartreuse–a ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

On top of Mount Equinox, 17 monks from all over the world live quietly, dedicating their lives to silence, solitude and contemplation. The Charterhouse of the Transfiguration, America s only ...