Amidst the decline of Catholicism in France, the reconstruction of the Abbey of St. Wandrille emerges as a powerful sign of ...

Monsignor Joseph Showfety, who died Monday at the age of 98, once led Greensboro's first Catholic Church and helped found Bishop McGuiness High School.

without undue interference from the Benedictine Abbot General in Rome. So, upon the death of Abbot Vonier, the Buckfast monks met together to elect a successor, whom the Abbot General in due ...

This generation has produced such disparate figures as Henry Kissinger and Dr. Ruth Westheimer; noted academics and political leaders of both Israel and East Germany; even a Benedictine abbot, a Hindu ...

The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the black habit of the Order of St Benedict, who had originally established ... In this cloister on the Thursday before Easter the Abbot used to wash the feet of ...

Extraordinary' - It begins with Baldwin Dworschak, a 44-year-old "buttoned-down" abbot, who inherited stewardship ... from being the world's largest male Benedictine monastery with 340 monks ...

However, Abbot Nicholas Wetz said the aim is that they will ultimately merge: “Our shared hope is that we will be able to support and strengthen each other in faithfulness to our Benedictine ...

This generation has produced such disparate figures as Henry Kissinger and Dr. Ruth Westheimer; noted academics and political leaders of both Israel and East Germany; even a Benedictine abbot, a Hindu ...