William Lyon Phelps, in a recent magazine article, looks back fifty years to his won college career, and then deplores the passing of the good old days. Though ready enough to admit the great ...

who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks of his own abbey at Monte Cassino in Italy about 540AD. According to the Rule they were to take a vow of obedience, lead a simple and ...

particularly with the publication of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option, which recommends the rule of St. Benedict as a tool for a well-ordered life and, more important, intentional authenticity ...

The Rt Revd Dr. Helen-Ann Hartley Fountains Abbey, near Ripon Benedict’s rule for Monasteries, which dates to 516 sees work as embracing periods of rest and prayer. As God is active in the world ...

That’s a Benedictine rule followed by all artisans in Saint Vincent’s monastic community, he explained. “That’s one of our operating principles, to be very fair,” he said. While sales of ...