We first encountered the restoration work at Ørslev Monastery through finishes company Linolie & Pigment. Founded around 1200 ...

ST. MARYS, Pa. (AP) – The nation’s first Benedictine convent, which opened more than a century ago, is closing after its 17 remaining members unanimously agreed it was time to dissolve the ...

In northeast Scotland, six miles southwest of Elgin in Moray, stands Pluscarden Abbey, the northernmost Benedictine abbey in the world. Within its medieval walls, a community of some 15 Catholic monks ...

In past millennia, construction of a church could take centuries. Paris' Cathedral of Notre Dame — currently in the final stages of being rebuilt after the tragic fire that nearly destroyed it in 2019 ...

The merger of Mount St. Scholastica College and St. Benedict’s College in 1971 created what is now Benedictine College. The ...

Amid the windswept ruins of Norway’s first monastery, Selja stirs once more with prayer and the quiet rebirth of a Benedictine vision. The ruins of the Benedictine monastery on Selja on July 5 (photo: ...

A popular nun who taught math at John Carroll High School in Birmingham and led the Benedictine retreat center in Cullman for decades has died. Sister Eleanor Harrison, who was born in Birmingham on ...

In Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his ...