(Photo: Bénédicte Cedergren) Because of the jealousy of a local priest, the abbot explained, St. Benedict decided to leave Subiaco — where he had already founded 12 communities — with a ...

ATCHISON, Kansas — Abbot Barnabas Senecal, OSB has suffered a stroke, the community of St. Benedict’s Abbey announced Thursday. J.D. Benning, the abbey’s director of communications ...

Excerpt: Q: According to St. Benedict, what kind of man should an abbot — or a father — be? What sort of a community should he strive to create in his home? Longenecker: There is a long ...

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 ...

O’Brien Hall at St. Benedict the Abbot Church in McMurray is crammed tight with patrons for its fish fry in this file photo. This year’s fish fry will be drive-thru only due to the pandemic. What’s ...

Coming in at No. 4 on the list of the largest Pittsburgh-area houses of worship was St. Benedict the Abbot Parish, with 9,774 individual members. For No. 3, click ...

came to St. Benedict’s Abbey as administrator in January 1993, from St. Meinrad’s Archabbey in Indiana. In November, the abbey’s monks voted to name Father Ryska abbot, and he was officially ...

developed by the early medieval monk St. Benedict, who was himself not ordained. They are still figuring out how to handle liturgies like their Christmas Mass that traditionally the abbot presides ...

unincorporated community of St. Benedict. Boquet succeeds Justin Brown, who was elected abbot in 2001. Brown decided earlier this year to step down, and was elected June 25 to serve as president ...