The election of an American as pope is being recognized as a historic choice, but Chicago-born Robert Prevost represents another notable departure from pontiffs of the past.

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 ...

Discovered' by Benedictine monk Arnold Wion in 1595, scholars believe that Wion himself published the text in the 16th century and have therefore written it off. Pope Francis was called 'Peter the ...

A book known as the Prophecy of the Popes is said to have been penned by Saint Malachy, the 12th‑century Archbishop of Armagh in Northern Ireland, before it was published in 1595 by Benedictine monk ...