CAMBRIDGE, New York (AP) — After he and his fellow monks sang morning prayers in their church nestled in a forest, Brother Luke walked back to his residence to be greeted by a different kind of choir.

Dogs are always around people, and doesn’t the good book say we were made in God’s image. So its not too far a stretch when a joke asks you to imagine a time when God was chilling with their dog. Back ...

Brother Luke, an Orthodox Christian monk, holds his 10-week-old German shepherd Pyrena on the grounds of the New Skete monastery, where he directs the dog breeding program that has provided both ...