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 ...

Before the official start of autumn on Sept. 22 there’s a special season that many Christians – including us at the Center for Benedictine Life at the Monastery of St. Gertrude – will be celebrating.

The Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles continue to live their charism of prayer, work and hospitality. Guided by our Blessed Mother, the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the ...

I became fascinated with my friend Sister Margaret Mandernach’s life one day over lunch when she informed me that for one week in the 1950s, she had been the nanny for Eugene and Abigail McCarthy's ...

During the six weeks of Lent I have been blogging about the six aspects of the Benedictine life. First we considered the three vows of obedience, stability and conversion of life. Now, for the second ...

Sister Beverly Raway came to the College of St. Scholastica as a student with the intention of becoming a biology teacher. The calling to join the Benedictine Sisters of St. Scholastica Monastery ...

The Benedictine Living Community of Duluth (BLCD) shared their live Nativity experience on Thursday for any residents, staff, and guests to attend. Visitors saw the Holy Family, Angel Gabriel, ...

Someone had to do it: refute the underlying premise of Rod Dreher's 2017 The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. The one who took up this challenge was Patrick Henry ...

Believing that life on a farm in the country would bring her peace and contentment, Jerusalem Greer set out to quickly sell her North Little Rock home. After her attempts were unsuccessful, Greer's ...

In Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his ...