The Casamari pharmacy, still in operation after two centuries, remains a powerful symbol of the connection between monastic ...

Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of isolation?

A monk accused of abuse at a leading Catholic boarding school would wear his habit while he became sexually aroused on a bed, a court has been told.Michael Callaghan, who is now 71, denies multiple ...

Friars of the Augustinian order typically stand out in hooded black habits made of wool ... Before Francis, the last pope from a religious order was Gregory XVI, a Benedictine Camaldolese monk who was ...

Born in Elrosa, Minnesota, Father Klassen professed as a Benedictine monk in 1972 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1977. He served as the tenth abbot of Saint John’s Abbey from 2000 until ...

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formerly known as Dom Venard during his years as a Benedictine monk, said: “For every transition in the papacy, there is a stillness. Not silence, but a sort of global holding of breath.

A father from Ampleforth Abbey a - Benedictine abbey and monastery in North Yorkshire - made a surprising confession on TikTok. "Yes we do [follow football] - we have one monk who supports Leeds ...

That scene influenced Francis so much that he took for his Episcopal motto “miserando atque eligendo,” the commentary of an eighth-century Benedictine monk, Bede, who, thinking about what ...

(OSV News photo/Bob Roller) Joining them are Father Boniface Hicks, OSB, a Benedictine monk and author who speaks frequently on contemplative prayer and Eucharistic devotion; Sister Mary Gabriel of ...