For many years now, I have gradually and quietly become what you may call “spiritually independent.” I’m now in my early seventies, and my personal faith practice is now beyond “religion.” To put it ...

In St. Benedict’s Rule, written in the sixth century, a key recommendation for Lent is that all the monks and nuns read a ...

Community members along with area nuns united Monday evening to reclaim the site of violence.  A Take Back the Site vigil was ...

For centuries, the image of a monk hunched over a desk, painstakingly copying manuscripts by candlelight, has dominated our ...

Wood’s earlier novels contain explicit social critiques, but 'Stone Yard Devotional' does its intellectual heavy lifting at ...

A hundred years ago, five German nuns—Crescentia Veser, Luitgard Schanbeck, Rudolphine Bildstein, Richarda Herrman and Celsa ...

Catholic. As the Register’s Anna Farrow reported recently, Carney “goes to (Mass) at least once a week, meditates, and is a fan of Benedictine monk Laurence Freeman, the director of the World ...

The practice of imposing ashes—once reserved for penitents but later extended to all believers—was first mentioned in the late 10th century by Benedictine monk Aelfric, abbot of Eynsham in ...

home to a group of Catholic Benedictine monks who serve as spiritual mentors and educators within the college and local community. The Intentional Catholic Student Residency Program in Washington ...

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