Today is the Feast Day of St. Benedict of Nursia in the Orthodox Church — which is to say, my name day. Three years ago, it was a happy coincidence — though I call it God’s winking at me ...

Today is the day Orthodox Christians observe the feast of St. Benedict of Nursia, founder of Western monasticism. Because he’s a saint of the pre-schism Church, the Orthodox recognize him as a ...

In the early 6th century, when St. Benedict of Nursia wrote his Rule for living together in community, I doubt he could have imagined that 16 centuries later, a college and university on a ...

ROME — “Listen and attend with the ear of your heart,” St. Benedict of Nursia, the founder of Western monasticism, once said. This is easier said than done in our increasingly anxious and ...

I found it in an unlikely place: the 1,500-year-old Rule of St. Benedict. A sixth-century Italian monk known as the founder of Western monasticism, Benedict of Nursia once struggled with balance, too.

On this day we celebrate the feast of St. Benedict of Nursia, c. 480 - c. 547. For a virtual tour of his monastery, click here for the Monte Cassino page on the St. John's Abbey web site. Click ...

A depiction of St. Benedict of Nursia by Fra Angelico. (Credit: Public domain/via Wikimedia Commons.) Listen With the recent celebration of the feast day of Saint Benedict, the famous cave of ...

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 ...

In passing, other commentators - including Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun - mention that perhaps the new pope chose the name in deference to St. Benedict of Nursia, who died in 547 AD.

Do we need the Benedict Option now? Yes. But we should also be deft enough, when necessary, to shift to a more open and engaging attitude. Founded by St. Benedict of Nursia, the Abbey of Monte ...

Before St. Benedict left for Subiaco, he studied in Rome, where today there is a little-known chapel built on the site believed to be his former residence.