In his "Rule," St. Benedict remarks that a monastery is never without guests. Though he wrote this line 1,500 years ago, the monastery remains alluring even for modern visitors. The monks leave the ...
I -- like so many others -- saw the winter's first snowfalls. Since weather is a perennially popular topic for small talk, it did not take long to see that snowfall receiv ...
Although the current American GIRM clearly indicates standing as the normal posture for holy Communion in this country, it does not seek to impose this on those members of the faithful who personally ...
Deportation is often seen as a last resort in enforcing immigration laws. It is not considered a punishment but rather an exercise of a government's sovereign right to exclude from its nation whomever ...
Nurses and doctors can encounter distressing images as death unfolds for their patients. Those approaching death may make odd bodily movements, give off stenches, or emit strange groans. Perhaps they ...
St. Joseph's Abbey is a monastic community of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance, commonly known as Trappists. We are a contemplative order, following the Rule of St. Benedict. The comm ...
"All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ for he himself will say, I was a stranger and you welcomed me." -- Rule of Benedict, 53:1 A woman was walking on the grounds of ...
Four days after Corpus Christi Church was incinerated in the Palisades Fire, Capt. Bryan Nassour of the Los Angeles Fire Department picked his way over a 6-foot layer of rubb ...
Dubbed the prayerbook of the church, the Book of Psalms was first the prayerbook of Israel and the only prayerbook of Jesus. The Holy Year booklet on this topic was written by Gianfranco Cardinal Rava ...
NEW YORK (OSV News) – Will Gerard Butler's unorthodox Los Angeles police detective Nicholas "Big Nick" O'Brien cross over to the dark side? That's the question returning writer-director Christian ...
Pilgrims from all over the Archdiocese of Boston, including Archbishop Richard G. Henning, will be heading down to Washington, D.C., next week for the 52nd annual March for Life, which wi ...
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