Over the centuries, a magnificent monastic complex was built around the Sacred Cave where St. Benedict developed his ...

Pope Benedict XVI paid homage to Benedict XV, who led the church during World War I, but also to St. Benedict of Nursia, who founded the Benedictine Order and influenced the spread of Christianity ...

The Benedictines, founded by St. Benedict of Nursia (c. 480–547 A.D.), promoted learning, agriculture, and spiritual discipline across Europe.

Pope Benedict XVI paid homage to Benedict XV, who led the church during World War I, but also to St. Benedict of Nursia, who founded the Benedictine Order and influenced the spread of Christianity ...

Pope Benedict XVI, for instance, honored both Benedict XV — who led the Church during World War I — and St. Benedict of Nursia, founder of the Benedictine Order.

Pope Benedict XV, who, since childhood, writes Kertzer, walked with a limp, had died on the morning of January 22. An intractable cough later diagnosed as bronchitis had, with lightning speed ...

The next day, intrigued by all this, I went to the Rizal Library reference section to read about the medal of St. Benedict—a sacramental cleansed and empowered by a double exorcism—then I was led to ...

In the year 529, the civilization of Rome was a fainting glimmer. That year Saint Benedict of Nursia, founder of the Benedictine Order, established its abbey on Monte Cassino—a steady light, on ...

The Delicate Art of Campaigning to Become Pope Lobbying for the throne of St. Peter is unseemly. But someone’s got to do the job.

“The Blessing of Benedict” is an excerpt from “Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedit” by Carmen Acevedo Butcher (Paraclete Press ©2006, used by permission ,www.paracletepress.com).

Later, a new order of French sisters, the Daughters of Charity, was founded by St. Vincent de Paul and St. Louise de Marillac in 1633. They also served as nurses in the Hôtel-Dieu hospital.