Since Trump’s first term, Hannah Arendt has loomed large in op-eds and political commentary; the German-Jewish thinker’s book ...

In Assisi in 2013, Pope Francis explained why he adopted “Il Poverello” (the little poor man) as his patron ... and for Benedict of Nursia, whose monastic vision is central to the Christian ...

I went to the Rizal Library reference section to read about the medal of St. Benedict—a sacramental cleansed and empowered by a double exorcism—then I was led to read more about: Benedict of Nursia, ...

Around the time St. Patrick died in Ireland in 493, Benedict left his birthplace and traveled with his family and nurse some 100 miles southwest to Rome. The move from rural Nursia to ...

prayer and work according to a text written by the Italian monk St. Benedict of Nursia: the Rule of Saint Benedict. Monasteries of childless women as well as of childless men followed this rule ...

With a breathtaking valley stretching out below and an ancient monastery clinging to the cliffs above, Subiaco, Italy, feels as though it is a world away from the chaotic streets of Rome, only 40 ...

In the early 6th century, when St. Benedict of Nursia wrote his Rule for living together in community, I doubt he could have imagined that 16 centuries later, a college and university on a ...

and Saint Benedict of Nursia, the founder of Christian monasticism. He later said that he had been reluctant to assume the papacy, that he would have preferred to retire to his house in a Bavarian ...

it was a nod to sixth-century St. Benedict of Nursia, who had lived for several years in a cave in Italy. As Pope Benedict prepares to end his papacy this week, his critics say the challenges he ...