The monastery was founded by a group of monks who came to Colorado from St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. The monks were formally part of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance, ...

Sister Alfreda, of the Benedictine Order, in 1973 told an interviewer she was there when Zervas' body was returned to St. Benedict's Convent for burial in 1926. “We saw her body. Oh she was ...

ROME — Perched majestically atop a rocky hill 80 miles south of Rome, the first house of the Benedictine order will this year celebrate the 60th anniversary of the proclamation of St. Benedict ...

He wrote the key book of the monastic orders: "The Rule of St Benedict." ADVERTISEMENT His advice book is a 12-step guide that flies in the face of current Western wisdom.

A southwest Baltimore church will no longer hold Mass after nearly a century of worship.While St. Benedict Catholic Church is in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, it's run by the Order of the ...

Although today Subiaco is known as the birthplace of Western monasticism, thanks to St. Benedict of Nursia -- who spent three years living in a cave there before starting 13 monasteries -- it was ...

German visitors arrive July 8 to discuss history of St. Benedict and the Third Order of St. Francis ...

A Pope on his Apostolical chair authorizes the establishment of the new Order of St. Benedict. The expressive countenance of the holy man, giving his bLessing to the meek nuns, with the angels holding ...