Can Western monasticism's "father," Benedict, still give us an antidote to cultural compromise? At first blush, this might seem unlikely, at least in the Western church. Between 1978 and 2004 ...

Merton was quick to admit he had never taken psychedelic drugs, and it seems he never did. But he had searching questions and ...

But years later, when Benedict wrote a rule of life for another group of monks, it turned out to be a model of monastic moderation and one reason monasticism blossomed in the West. Despite the ...

Cathedral in Pruzhany. Priest Fedor Dmitriyuk served here in the thirties of the last century. Until 1939 Pruzhany were under the jurisdiction of Poland.

2021. Books Received. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 72, Issue. 3, p. 701. Monasticism was the dominant form of religious life both in the medieval West and in the Byzantine world. Latin ...

St Basil the Great was a Christian teacher, theologian, and writer who lived from 329-380 CE. His influence on church history ...

A Harvard East Asian expert has compared Buddhist monasticism and the hippie movement in a letter to the controversial Avatar magazine. The Chinese scholar, who asked to remain anonymous ...

Saint Benedict, founder of Western monasticism, was born in the Italian city of Nursia in the year 480. When he was fourteen years of age, the saint's parents sent him to Rome to study. Unsettled by ...

Dr. Callahan was an ardent fan of the Red Sox, classical music and solitary walks in nature, both in Newark and at his family ...

The Ricostruttori community in Italy runs houses of prayer for people who are “drawn to spirituality but far from the Church.