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 ...

The Benedictine Rule of welcoming the stranger, including the "little ones" as Jesus commanded, remains a model for us today, writes Msgr. Joseph Prior in his reflection on this Sunday's Mass readings ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

In his latest collection of essays, The Way of St. Benedict, Rowan Williams proposes an answer. For 1,500 years, Benedict of Nursia’s monastic rule has guided Christians who seek to conform to Christ ...