As a Catholic, I am often confronted by the difficulty of being “in the world but not of the world.” In our struggle to remain holy despite earthly temptations, it can be easy to subscribe to the ...

Pope Leo XIV encourages Benedictine men and women from around the world to deepen their roots in Christ and continue offering a witness of prayer and ...

People are often surprised to learn that I am a Benedictine monastic because I do not wear a traditional habit. The assumption is understandable, as monastic life has long been associated with ...

See Vatican News to discover the life-story and message of St. Benedict, Abbot, Patron of Europe, the Saint of the Day 11 ...

LONDON — At first, it sounds like an odd combination: an English monk leading workshops for business leaders on spiritual values in the workplace. But Father Dermot Tredget believes that the Rule of ...

Hard to believe that The Rule, a set of monastic precepts established by St. Benedict in the sixth century, could apply to educating inner-city youth beset by modern problems of poverty, violence, ...

Benedict’s Rule became the gold standard of monastic life. Listen!” wrote Benedict at the beginning of his monastic Rule. Writing around A.D. 540, he offered a way of listening in a setting where ...

CWN Editor's Note: Pope Leo XIV received monks and nuns from three Italian Benedictine communities on March 30 and reflected on the Benedictine charism, emphasizing lectio divina, community life, and ...

Great cultural change — the kind that upends our social givens — always spawns division. More times than not, the changes create fissures among us that can lead to whole new contests of social ...