Sister Mary Christopher Flowers, a member of the Olivetan Benedictine Sisters, passes away at 92. She dedicated her life to education and community service.

On a recent retreat with my wife, Katherine, to Holy Cross Abbey near Berryville, St. Benedict’s teachings on hospitality and ...

The number of people in monastic orders in Germany is sinking, with many convents and monasteries facing dissolution. What ...

Beer is one of the oldest beverages in human history, with origins dating back thousands of years. While brewing techniq ...

While 30 Benedictine monks reside today in the “historical monument,” the French abbot noted that “there is nothing left from the very beginning, but from the 11th century onward, ...

Benedictine Sisters have been in the Erie area since 1856. She said the majority of the 55 Benedictines who live at the monastery are registered to vote.

Among corporate America’s most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City. Nestled amid rolling farmland, the Benedictine sisters of Mount St. Scholastica ...

Because the Benedictine Sisters don’t sit still. Many of them were teachers or social workers in their younger days and have taken full-time jobs at the monastery since retiring.

In the term of this issue we celebrate the great St. Benedict of Nursia. He is sometimes called the father of monasticism — ...

The Benedictine Sisters for the past 100 years have made their living by selling altar breads. They also sell handmade soaps, crafted at the monastery in Wyoming, and vestments custom-made in Tucson.

Benedictine monks pictured in the Litlyngton Missal. Early history. In 1245 Henry III began rebuilding much of the Church in the new Gothic style of architecture.Some monastic buildings from this ...

The monks of Venice’s San Giorgio Maggiore have hosted Cosimo de Medici in exile and a papal conclave, but they won’t be ...