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 ...

St. Augustine of Hippo (354–430 A.D.), through works like The City of God and Confessions, provided a philosophical and theological framework that influenced Western Christianity for centuries.

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. Here are the most frequently ...

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 ...

It was tribute in part to Saint Benedict of Nursia, who laid down the rigid rules for Christian monastic life. But the Holy Spirit moves in mysterious ways.

Benedict was born in the tiny hill village of Nursia (now Norcia) in “Bella Umbria”—an area famous for its olive groves, vineyards, cypress woods, lavender bushes, cherry orchards, and ...

Louise de Marillac. Wellcome Collection, Artist Louis Hercule Sisco, 1778-1861. Beginning in the 13th century, Augustinian nuns, following a rule of life based on the teaching of St. Augustine ...