Today is the Feast Day of St. Benedict of Nursia in the Orthodox Church — which is to say, my name day. Three years ago, it was a happy coincidence — though I call it God’s winking at me — when my ...

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.

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 ...

I returned a short time ago from an astonishing journey to Subiaco, to the monastery founded by St. Benedict, around the cave in which he lived as a hermit circa 500, praying and fasting and ...

On this day we celebrate the feast of St. Benedict of Nursia, c. 480 - c. 547. For a virtual tour of his monastery, click here for the Monte Cassino page on the St. John's Abbey web site. Click the ...

In his latest collection of essays, The Way of St. Benedict, Rowan Williams proposes an answer. For 1,500 years, Benedict of Nursia’s monastic rule has guided Christians who seek to conform to Christ ...

The Basilica of St. Benedict in the ancient city of Norcia is seen Oct. 31 following an earthquake in central Italy. (Credit: CNS pohoto/Remo Casilli, Reuters.) Listen ROME – Before a series of ...

He was born Oct. 6, 2020. Benedict is our first child, and he was named on purpose. In a world that is increasingly anti-God and anti-religion, my wife and I desire Ben, and all of our children, to ...

In the year 529, the civilization of Rome was a fainting glimmer. That year Saint Benedict of Nursia, founder of the Benedictine Order, established its abbey on Monte Cassino—a steady light, on a ...