All those pesky enemies and negative energies will vanish from your life if you turn to Saint Benedict and recite the prayer of protection. With this, you'll bid farewell to enemies, envy, and bad ...

Thursday morning after the Tuesday election I woke up at 2:30 a.m. — wide awake. As I lay there pondering the hard-fought election battle, I felt drawn to pray the morning prayer of St. Benedict. The ...

Quiet and contemplative. Solitary and devoted. Simple. These are some of the words used to describe the monastic way of life. For hundreds of years, Christian men and women around the world have ...

On July 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the sixth-century abbot who gave Christian monasticism its lasting foundation in Western Europe. For his historic role ...

On the Feast of St. Dominic, Pope Benedict XVI praised the founder of the Order of Preachers as "a man of prayer, in love with God" whose nine ways of prayer are an example for Christians' daily life.