Every evening, the reader in the refectory at Saint Anselm Abbey, mentions what anniversaries of death will be observed the following day. Saint Benedict tells his monastic disciples in the Holy Rule ...

Pilgrims from around the world continue to travel to Rome for the 2025 Jubilee Year, and though they won’t catch a glimpse of ...

Prayer, the monks remind us, is something learned. This implies being a student or disciple -- a learner. We also must have teachers. Beginning with the great teacher of prayer, Jesus himself, the ...

Pope Francis is responding “positively” to medical treatment for pneumonia, according to the Vatican, a week after the 88-year-old pontiff was hospitalized in Rome.

Father Paul Soper, director of clergy personnel for the Archdiocese of Boston, was honored with the Avery Cardinal Dulles Ad ...

Paul wrote to Titus about many things, including about how living peacefully with those around us greatly enhances the love ...

Dear T.F.: Consider the transformation in Simon Peter. He denied Christ. He was cowed by the crowd, shamed by a little maid, and took his place with the enemies of Christ. This was Peter who ...

The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like ...

For three weeks in January, 25 seminarians and two leaders from The St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul traveled and prayed in the ...

Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember? When I broke the five loaves for the five ...

The miracles that Jesus performed do not suffice for the Pharisees, and so they ask Jesus for a sign from heaven, which is God’s confirmation of Jesus’ authority and claims. Jesus sees this as their ...

that St. John Paul II chose to address the issue of his ministry. If the pope holds any significance in the eyes of Christ’s disciples, whether they are Catholic or not, it is by virtue of his ...