While for many students at the University of St. Thomas (UST) in St. Paul, Minnesota, a recent warm September Saturday meant a break from classes, college seminarian Sean Czaplewski and 35 other ...

Tasmania’s first Benedictine monastery is gradually taking shape on over 3,000 acres of green pastureland, felicitously named Jerusalem Estate and abutting an eponymous creek in the island’s idyllic ...

After 66 years, the St Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass will begin closing this summer, according to a message on its website. The message, from Dom Damian Carr: “As many of you know, our monastic ...

Among lesser-known works by renowned 20th-century photographer, author and filmmaker Gordon Parks is a series of photos taken for a 1955 “Life” magazine photo essay documenting life among the monks of ...

“When a monk gives his life to God, he has to express that in a physical way, not just an intellectual way, and singing involves the whole body and the mind and the soul, and so it’s a wonderful way ...

Readers might not think that poverty, chastity and obedience would be attractive to the common Protestant, but Okholm, a theology professor at Azusa Pacific University, will make them think twice.

Quiet and contemplative. Solitary and devoted. Simple. These are some of the words used to describe the monastic way of life. For hundreds of years, Christian men and women around the world have ...

Some time ago, I read this story about Austin Murphy, a University of Chicago graduate (Class of 1995) who became the youngest Benedictine abbot in the country. I reached out to Abbot Austin, who ...

To say the liturgy is integral to the lives of the monks of Fontgombault (pronounced Fun gum boe) would be like saying a football is important to the playing of the Super Bowl. Every action of their ...

An English Benedictine community's decision to leave their home for the past two centuries will allow members to focus on core monastic principles, the abbot said Tuesday. Abbot Nicholas Wetz told CNA ...

In Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his ...

Someone had to do it: refute the underlying premise of Rod Dreher's 2017 The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. The one who took up this challenge was Patrick Henry ...