The Kylemore Trust has switched on the lights of the 19th-century Kylemore Abbey as part of a year-long program of events to celebrate 100 years of the Benedictine Order of nuns in Kylemore Abbey in ...

ROME — Abbots and priors from Benedictine men’s communities around the world elected U.S. Abbot Gregory Polan of Conception Abbey in Missouri to be abbot primate. The 66-year-old Scripture scholar and ...

Sensing the Culture of Death’s grip on our culture, a Benedictine order of sisters is striking out in new territory, trying to attract recruits for the bold mission of spreading the truths of Pope ...

Monte Cassino belongs to the Benedictine Order and is located in southern Italy’s Lazio region. It sits high above the quaint town of Cassino, about 136 km (84.5 miles) from Rome. Its founder, St.

Cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer, priest of the Benedictine order, who headed a Vatican department dedicated to the liturgy, and then later, one dedicated to achieving reconciliation with the St. Pius X ...

A lawsuit filed in St. Cloud Tuesday accuses the Benedictine Order of covering up sex-abuse allegations that were made against 11 clerics working at St. John's University in Collegeville in the 1960s, ...

Sister Esther Bataille, a member of the Benedictine order and a French teacher, died of respiratory failure Saturday at the Maria Health Care Center in Woodbrook. She was 105. Born Regina Bataille in ...

Speaking to members of Benedictine communities in Rome Thursday, Pope Francis said the religious order provides a space for quiet and prayer in an otherwise rushed world, helping people to put God at ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Benedictine nuns are apologizing for decades of trauma caused by Native boarding schools in Minnesota. Starting in the late 1800s, American Indian children were forcibly taken ...