That is why Benedict wrote his Rule of Life. To worship Jesus, and him alone, requires humility and obedience. This is what St. Benedict teaches as paramount to the Christian life. “The first ...

His beliefs and instructions on religious life were collected in what is now known as the “Rule of Saint Benedict,” still directing religious life after 15 centuries. In this short but ...

Thousands watched and mourned and bells tolled as pallbearers carried Benedict's cypress coffin from St. Peter's Basilica ... and to the witness of his entire life, we too, as an ecclesial ...

“The Blessing of Benedict” is an excerpt from “Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedit” by Carmen Acevedo Butcher (Paraclete Press ©2006, used by permission ,www.paracletepress.com).

Benedict was born in Germany’s Bavaria in 1927 and was drawn to the church early in life. His family opposed ... Once released, he entered Saint Michael Seminary in 1945 along with his brother.

you begin to imagine the rigorous life that is easy to romanticize from the outside. In Subiaco, two monasteries are available for touring: the Monastery of St. Benedict, at the top of the ...

Pope Benedict XVI on a tour of St. Peter’s Square at the end of his ... Here is a selection of images from Benedict’s long life. Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber blessing Joseph Ratzinger ...

During his homily, Rev. Don Williams, of Saint Matthew's ... be punished or perished but that we would know life and love eternally. Pope Benedict XVI experienced that in his home, in the life ...

During St. John Paul II's quarter-century as ... "Any celebration that marks the life of abuse enablers like Benedict must end," said the main U.S. abuse survivor group SNAP.

His body will be placed in St. Peter’s Basilica ... But he had chosen a different route. Benedict did not have the globe-trotting, bear-hugging, larger-than-life persona of John Paul II.