On July 8, the feast day of St. Sunniva, Catholics from multiple countries arrived at Selja, an island just off the west ...

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

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, ...

It was here, in this very first monastery of the order, that the saint wrote down his renowned rule, shaping a monastic life centered around prayer, work, studies and hospitality.While it was at ...

The sisters moved to Maryland in 1971, and to the monastery in 1986, after starting out in New Jersey; Benedictine sisters first came to the United States in 1852.

He is the monastery’s cellarer, the Benedictine equivalent of C.E.O. These past two decades the abbey has transformed into an energy-efficient, highly modern economic powerhouse.

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

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.

Neighbors of St. Scholastica Monastery in the Rogers Park neighborhood occasionally see the Roman Catholic sisters who live there, either gardening or leaving to run errands or go to work. They wav… ...

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 ...