ROME (RNS) When the earth shook and the walls came tumbling down in Norcia earlier this week, the Benedictine monks who live in the picturesque central Italian town somehow survived without a ...

In the term of this issue we celebrate the great St. Benedict of Nursia. He is sometimes called the father of monasticism — ...

The monks’ CD, Benedicta, is music based on Scripture, especially Psalms and the life of the Virgin Mary, plus passages from the 1,500-year-old guide for monastic living, The Rule of St. Benedict.

In a monastery tucked away in a quiet back lane of Bangalore, India, Benedictine monks of the Vallombrosian Order are using their European connections to meet rising demand for fresh, Italian ...

BELMONT, N.C. -- Roman Catholics regard Benedict, an Italian monk who died around 547, as the patron saint of Europe, kidney disease victims, nettle rash sufferers, spelunkers and servants who ...

One such soul is St. Benedict. This Italian monk from the sixth century began a movement that endures and is ... there remains 400 Benedictine monasteries and 20,000 Benedictine monks worldwide.

The Rev. Benedict Nivakoff, the abbot, said beer sales covered about 15 to 20 percent of reconstruction, with donations funding the rest. In his homily at a Mass celebrating St. Benedict’s July ...

Benedict responded to the anarchy of his time by founding monastic communities built on the ideal of cultivating a family spirit among the monks, on disciplined daily worship, on a balanced and ...