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Benedictine High School's headmaster has been forced out by senior monks who are reorganizing the administration and have dissolved the board of the 98-year-old Catholic school.
Maria Eller, a volunteer with Catholic Community Services, left, helps Rosa Carrillo, from Guatemala, prepare lunch at the Benedictine Monastery, 800 N Country Club Rd, on January 28, 2019.
Monks' "gesture of gratitude" preserves Jerome farmland for generations to come. As the Monastery of the Ascension changes hands, the monks ensure its 400 acres of farm will stay farmland forever ...
I n the hills of Devon, in western England, some 30 years ago, “Black Monks”† of the Benedictine order pulled aprons over their rough black robes, began a task which would have stumped most ...
After a 1990 wildfire destroyed his home and possessions, Iyer started over. The loss led him to a Benedictine monastery, where he found comfort and compassion in solitude. His new memoir is Aflame.
The Benedictine Monks, who have been in Oklahoma since the 1800s, historically supported themselves through agriculture. When their private university, St. Gregory's, closed in 2017, the community ...
LATROBE, Pa. — Hundreds of Benedictine monks are buried at the St. Vincent Cemetery next to the college campus. Until a few years ago, many of their graves sat in disarray. “The cast iron ...
The monastery ‘Amalfion’ (from the Italian town of Amalfi, where the first monks of this Athos monastery came from) was founded in the 980s by Fr Leo of Benevent, who came to Athos from the ‘Roman ...
Benedictine monks in Germany have made public their historic photo archives that depict the life, culture, and evolution of Korea over the span of a century. Archabbot Jeremias Schröder of the Saint ...
Benedictine Abbot Isaac Murphy was elected the sixth abbot of St. Anselm Abbey in Manchester, New Hampshire, on June 17. Murphy entered the community in the 1990s.