Combining ora et labora, prayer and work ... The Basilica di San Benedetto and the adjoining monastery, which Benedictine monks had inhabited continuously for 16 years, was seriously damaged ...

Cassian Folsom is the founder and prior of the Monks of Norcia, an order of Benedictine monks in the ... and as an example of prayer, Mary is fundamental for the life of Christians.

From The Benedictine Rule Chapter ... Judaeo-Christian tradition is one that the monk and writer Thomas Merton describes in his own reflections on praying the psalms. “The Church loves to ...

The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the black habit of the Order of St Benedict, who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks of his own abbey at Monte Cassino in Italy about ...

The Vatican said Friday that Pope Francis is on a breathing machine after suffering a sudden respiratory episode during his ...

The journey of Lent "unfolds amid the remembrance of our fragility," Pope Francis wrote in his homily for Ash Wednesday.