The most famous rule of life is the Rule of St. Benedict, written in the sixth century, which organizes the life of Benedictine monks, specifying everything from what they should wear to when they ...

Every morning, new Benedictine University President Joseph Foy studies The Rule of St. Benedict, a guidebook for sixth-century monks. Some of the chapters about religious life in the Middle Ages ...

As he settled into his role as university president — the Wyoming native took the helm in July — Foy was reading daily from the Rule of St. Benedict, a guidebook for sixth-century monks, and ...

Vatican Rules that Benedictine Abbot Should Not Return to His Community. Fr. Gabriel Everitt, ... a 16,000-strong group with ties to the Benedictine monastery. ...

The Benedictine Order still exists across Europe- and we will hear three tales-first from Father Pere Basile, a monk who ...

A 153-year-old K-12 school run by Benedictine monks in downtown Newark, ... “The Rule of Benedict is not so much legislation, but wisdom literature,” says Father Holtz.

In the term of this issue we celebrate the great St. Benedict of Nursia. He is sometimes called the father of monasticism — ...

Hard to believe that The Rule, a set of monastic precepts established by St. Benedict in the sixth century, could apply to educating inner-city youth beset by modern problems of poverty, violence ...

The monastery was founded by a group of monks who came to Colorado from St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. The monks were formally part of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance, ...

St. Benedict writes, "Let those who receive the clothing not complain about its color or coarseness, but accept what is given ...

The important thing about Benedict's rule is that it was written for monks who lived in a community under the direction of an abbot. It integrates work, spirituality and prayer,” he said.