Brother Alban Petesch has spent over three decades making bread for the members of Assumption Abbey in Richardton, N.D., as well as for visitors who stop by the Benedictine monastery. Brother Alban ...

ARCHBISHOP Mark Coleridge says he faces his retirement on September 11 with “very mixed feelings” of loss, anticipation and what he calls the “sneaky working of grace.” After being installed in 2012 ...

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St. Benedict of Nursia was born in 480 in Italy. As a boy, his family sent him to Rome to study humanities, but he was disgusted by the lack of morals he found in his fellow students. He lived for a ...

In the term of this issue we celebrate the great St. Benedict of Nursia. He is sometimes called the father of monasticism — though monks had lived in monasteries for centuries before Benedict’s birth.

Nestled among the majestic cliffs of the Simbruini mountains in Subiaco, a town about an hour from Rome in the heart of the Aniene River valley, stands the Monastery of St. Benedict, also known as the ...

The name a new pope chooses will "indicate a certain spirit and direction and vision of the new pope," said Dennis Doyle, a theologian and professor emeritus of religious studies at the University of ...

Leo reflects both tradition and personal vision, practice rooted deeply in Church history Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of the St ...

Every time a new pope is announced, the world holds its breath to hear his name. But here’s the twist: although that cardinal already has a name, the moment he becomes the new leader of the Catholic ...

What’s in a name? That’s a question Catholics often ask after a new pope is elected. One of his first official acts of a new pope is to choose a name. Deeply symbolic, the name often reflects the pope ...

In Assisi in 2013, Pope Francis explained why he adopted “Il Poverello” (the little poor man) as his patron. First came St Francis’s focus on Christ. Second was his focus on peace, not a “saccharine ...