For months, I’ve been planning a men’s pilgrimage to Norcia, known to most Americans as Nursia. The pilgrimage was for the men’s group at St. Mark’s Catholic Community in Vicenza, Italy. Nursia is the ...

Pope Benedict XVI devoted his catechesis during his general audience on April 9 to St. Benedict of Nursia, the father of Western monasticism, patron saint of Europe, and the patron saint of Pope ...

This is a programme about the many ways and means human beings try not only to make sense of their lives, but of how they intentionally enjoy and delight in healthy and coherent existences. It is ...

Cheerfully they integrate their brewery business into their arduous life of prayer in the mountains of central Italy. In his justly celebrated new book, The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age ...

NORCIA, Italy — American monks have been raising money to fix up their centuries-old Italian monastery by brewing their own beer — a European monastic tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages. The ...

you were proven to be true to your name. Harris threatens to upend every piece of progress the cause of life has made in the past 20 years.

St Benedict’s creation of the Benedictine order led to his recognition as the ‘father of western monasticism’ Little is known with absolute certainty about the life of St Benedict of Nursia (a town in ...

Benedict of Nursia (c. 2 March 480 – c. 21 March 543 AD) is a Christian saint venerated in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion and ...

"The good of all concerned, however, may prompt us to a little strictness in order to amend faults and to safeguard love." The first monks who tried to live under Benedict's direction hated his ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In headier moments, many an enthusiastic young Christian has considered trying the good life as a monk ...