As the Christian community prepares for Lent, Benedictine monk Anselm Grün emphasizes that fasting can be a positive experience, encouraging individuals to embrace the practice with joy rather than as ...

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 ...

For Father Giles, who has lived as a Benedictine monk at Pluscarden Abbey in Scotland for nearly half a century, freedom is a concept defined by love and shaped by prayer. As he explains in this short ...

The new abbot of Benedictine monks in central Vietnam is expected to dedicate himself to promoting unity ... Noting the new abbot only turned 47 in May and is young to lead a monastery, the prelate ...

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

The Camaldolese had been granted by the Vatican a dispensation to engage with what is true and holy in every religious ...

Weeks after being admitted to the hospital for double pneumonia, Pope Francis has surprises followers. The pontiff sent out a ...

Pope Francis spent a restful night at the hospital in Rome, one day after suffering a sudden respiratory episode and was ...

For baby boomers who grew up attending Catholic school – or weekly classes on Sundays – in the 1960s and 1970s, the season of ...