The Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration will host an in-person monastic experience June 26-28 at the congregation’s ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has been referred to as the “Monk of Bavaria.” Yes, he was from Bavaria — a southern German state — and a proud Bavarian. Benedict XVI’s love for monasticism and monastics ...

Loquacious and quick with a smile and a joke, the newly installed Bishop Godfrey Mullen ministers to a hometown flock, ‘people that I’ve known since I was 9 months old.’ ...

Patrick Henry offers a nuanced interpretation of how monasticism can offer a compelling critique of—and an alternative to—contemporary culture. In contrast to Rod Dreher’s doctrinaire assertion of the ...

Saint Benedict imagined a life of stability, community and measure; one devoted to the care for souls and, ultimately, to ...

When Judith Valente, a Benedictine oblate, leads contemplative retreats both online and in monasteries around the country, she has been noticing that laypeople — whether Catholic or ...

Residents and staff of Villa St. Benedict are holding a fundraiser for a Benedictine Sisters monastery in Lviv, Ukraine. The independent living, assisted and memory care senior living community in ...

In Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his ...

Readers might not think that poverty, chastity and obedience would be attractive to the common Protestant, but Okholm, a theology professor at Azusa Pacific University, will make them think twice.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Benedictine Sisters of Erie have a temporary leader with a different title than usual for the monastic community. Erie ...

Photo credit to Michael Scanlan H '97. Photos were taken observing prevailing Covid-19 protocols. Friday convocations at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, N.J., often resemble an old-school ...

The monastic alternative, at least in the West, has become so deeply unfashionable that most people no longer consider the possibility, but there is, at least to me, something deeply appealing about ...