The Downside Abbey monks will soon be on the move again, and this time they are hoping it will be to a permanent home.

The Basilica di San Benedetto and the adjoining monastery, which Benedictine monks had inhabited continuously for 16 years, was seriously damaged in the first series of quakes, in late summer.

"Judgement Day" could take place in 2027. It's a 900-year-old book, carefully preserved at the Vatican, that predicts it. And ...

A study provides new insights into the many overlooked women scribes who wrote manuscripts in the Middle Ages.

The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the black habit of the Order of St Benedict, who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks of his own abbey at Monte Cassino in Italy about ...

Cassian Folsom is the founder and prior of the Monks of Norcia, an order of Benedictine monks in the Italian hometown of Saint Benedict and his sister Saint Scholastica. The monks — who ...

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Five men searching for meaning in their lives accept a challenge from the Benedictine monks of Worth Abbey to live according to the monks' rules for 40 days and nights.

Behind the walls of three religious orders to meet Benedictine nuns and monks who devote themselves not just to prayer and work, but to keeping ancient crafting traditions alive.

Father Adrian Convery, who has died at 92, was a Benedictine monk of Ampleforth Abbey in North Yorkshire in the 75th year of his monastic life.

For half a century, the existence of this modernist masterpiece has been mainly known to the Benedictine monks who worship there, and the hordes of architects who make pilgrimages to Saint John's ...