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 ...

The New York Times, of all places, proclaims the joyful news that the Birra Nursia brewery was spared the horrible Norcia earthquake! More: “Remarkably, the brewery was hardly damaged,” the Rev.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Saint Benedict was born around 480 AD in Nursia, Italy, an area of southeastern Umbria now best known for its wild-boar sausage. He lived at the time of the rise of Christian monasticism, a tradition ...

"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 ...

Noel Debien speaks with David Orr, a monk of the Benedictine monastery at Arcadia in North-Western Sydney. David Orr (far left) with the Benedictine monks of Arcadia In headier moments, many an ...