I am a 40-something mom of teenagers in modern America—possibly the furthest thing from a father of Western monasticism or a Renaissance-era Spanish theologian. Yet Sts. Benedict of Nursia and ...

In the early 6th century, when St. Benedict of Nursia wrote his Rule for living together in community, I doubt he could have imagined that 16 centuries later, a college and university on a continent ...

Why is the name Benedict so important? Some commentators point to the last pope named Benedict, Pope Benedict XV, in an attempt to understand why the new pope chose the name. The previous Benedict ...

Since Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option was published in 2017, St. Benedict's name has surfaced in discussions on faith and secularism. In honor of this feast of St. Benedict, I wanted to look more ...

Every morning, new Benedictine University President Joseph Foy studies The Rule of St. Benedict, a guidebook for sixth-century monks. Some of the chapters about religious life in the Middle Ages are ...

The resort was as posh as they come: all-inclusive, tucked away in a pristine corner of the Arizona desert and boasting stunning vistas of sun-drenched mountains around every bend of its adobe ...

AMATRICE, Italy — As Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, rebuild their monastery from the rubble caused by devastating earthquakes last year, they do so in the spirit of their founder, St. Benedict.