Religion – Christianity in particular – matters to me. I’ve studied it, taught it, written about it, puzzled over it, believed it, doubted it, and, with varying degrees of intensity and success, lived ...

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ATLANTA, Dec. 10, 2013 – The Missouri-based contemplative nuns Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles were named Billboard magazine’s Classical Traditional Artist 2012 and 2013. It’s the first order ...

DULUTH - Sister Judine Mayerle stood in a basement passageway, one hand on a massive white column. "I think this is really cool," the Benedictine nun said, with almost the same respect in her voice ...

It’s late tonight in Rome, and Casella and I are about to head to our beds. Early taxi ride in the morning to the airport for the flight home. I have so much to write about — I haven’t even told you ...

The Benedictines are banking on the first papal vineyard in France to help the distressed families of local wine growers during the coronavirus pandemic. On a hill in the Rhone Valley, the monks and ...

Sister Lisa Atkins, left, director of the Hesychia House of Prayer in New Blaine, Ark., poses for a photo with Benedictine Sister Louise Sharum, the founding director, and Sister Anita DeSalvo, ...

A community of Benedictine monks has vowed to continue ministering at a Spanish civil war memorial marked by a 460-foot cross despite a bill pending in parliament that would ban expressions of support ...

Two Benedictines: a nun and a priest, one the retired Abbess of an English Benedictine Community of women, one the Australian Abbot of a mixed community of women and men here in Australia at ...