Religion – Christianity in particular – matters to me. I’ve studied it, taught it, written about it, puzzled over it, believed it, doubted it, and, with varying degrees of intensity and success, lived ...

Today marks the release of Benedicta, an album of Marian chants from the Benedictine Monks of Norcia, who live in the ancient monastery built over the fifth-century birthplace of Saints Benedict and ...

In past millennia, construction of a church could take centuries. Paris' Cathedral of Notre Dame — currently in the final stages of being rebuilt after the tragic fire that nearly destroyed it in 2019 ...

In the mid 1800s, a Bavarian Benedictine monk, Boniface Wimmer, planned to build a church, seminary and college on land in Latrobe, Penn. The monastery and campus was to be self-sustaining. The ...

It’s late tonight in Rome, and Casella and I are about to head to our beds. Early taxi ride in the morning to the airport for the flight home. I have so much to write about — I haven’t even told you ...

DULUTH - Sister Judine Mayerle stood in a basement passageway, one hand on a massive white column. "I think this is really cool," the Benedictine nun said, with almost the same respect in her voice ...

ATLANTA, Dec. 10, 2013 – The Missouri-based contemplative nuns Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles were named Billboard magazine’s Classical Traditional Artist 2012 and 2013. It’s the first order ...

The Benedictines are banking on the first papal vineyard in France to help the distressed families of local wine growers during the coronavirus pandemic. On a hill in the Rhone Valley, the monks and ...

A community of Benedictine monks has vowed to continue ministering at a Spanish civil war memorial marked by a 460-foot cross despite a bill pending in parliament that would ban expressions of support ...