The abbey at Pannonhalma was founded in 996, four years before the establishment of the Hungarian Kingdom. Sitting upon a ...

Second, community life is actually quite difficult. On a macro level, facing broader societal upheaval together in a ...

Archbishop Enrique Benavent Vidal of Valencia, Spain, encouraged the faithful to take advantage of summer vacation to delve ...

Over the centuries, a magnificent monastic complex was built around the Sacred Cave where St. Benedict developed his ...

On a recent retreat with my wife, Katherine, to Holy Cross Abbey near Berryville, St. Benedict’s teachings on hospitality and ...

While 30 Benedictine monks reside today in the “historical monument,” the French abbot noted ... Drawn by the Rule of St. Benedict and the intense way of living the Christian life that the ...

It was here, in this very first monastery of the order, that the saint wrote down his renowned rule, shaping a monastic life centered around prayer, work, studies and hospitality.While it was at ...

(RNS) — When Pope Benedict XVI retired in 2013 — the first pontiff to do so in 600 years — the church had no rules for what a retired pope’s role would be or even what he would be called.