Abbot Austin is an extraordinary young religious ... that makes it even more countercultural. St. Benedict of Nursia, your 6th century founder, expects his monks to take a vow of “stability ...

William de Curtlyngton was Abbot of Westminster from 1315-1333. He was buried in front of the altar in the chapel of St Benedict in Westminster Abbey, next to Sir John Shorditch, but the brass figure ...

The Chapter House in the East Cloister was a meeting place where the monks gathered with the abbot to ‘hold chapter’: to pray, read from the rule of St Benedict, discuss the day’s business and when ...

In the months before the end of World War II, Abbot Patrick O’Brien appointed a committee to plan for the building of “a new and greater St. Benedict’s, to be located in Newark, N.J.” On four separate ...