For 75 years, the Benedictine monks of St. Mary's Abbey have lived a contemplative life in a historic valley two miles outside downtown Morristown. The monks founded Delbarton School on the property ...

AMATRICE, Italy — As Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, rebuild their monastery from the rubble caused by devastating earthquakes last year, they do so in the spirit of their founder, St. Benedict.

According to Bishop Bozo, the new foundation promises to be a real blessing for a very de-Christianized rural region, completely devoid of male contemplative communities since the Revolution. Solignac ...

The Basilica of St. Benedict in the ancient city of Norcia after an earthquake in central Italy. (Credit: CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters.) Listen AMATRICE, Italy — As Benedictine monks in Norcia, ...

An English Benedictine community's decision to leave their home for the past two centuries will allow members to focus on core monastic principles, the abbot said Tuesday. Abbot Nicholas Wetz told CNA ...

In this age of fake news, information overload and social media stress, we easily lose our sensible selves. We stress out and do, feel, say and think exponentially strange things (see this post for ...

A group of monks have decided to cut ties with a Catholic high school in Illinois after the school hired a lacrosse coach in a same-sex marriage. The school, Benet Academy in Lisle, Ill., had ...

The Oklahoma State Fair is known for unique culinary creations, but this year, an unexpected first-time vendor caught the attention of fair-goers: a food truck run by Benedictine Monks from ...

A Benedictine monk from Kenosha County is accused of trying to kidnap a 14-year-old girl in Illinois.Police in Antioch, Ill., said Thomas Chmura, 57, has been charged with attempted child abduction ...

It took him his whole life to tell his story. Now in his 60s, his long fight ended on Wednesday in a Morris County courtroom. A former student of the Delbarton School, who claimed he was sexually ...

A group of Benedictine monks are cutting ties with a west suburban Catholic high school months after the school, under mounting pressure, hired a woman in a same-sex marriage. Benet Chancellor Abbot ...

On Aug. 1, Benedictine monks moved into the emblematic Solignac Abbey in west-central France after a 230-year absence. It is the first time since the French Revolution that the Benedictines have ...