Cassian Folsom is the founder and prior of the Monks of Norcia, an order of Benedictine monks in the Italian hometown of Saint Benedict and his sister Saint Scholastica. The monks — who ...

The town’s fame has much to do with its being the birthplace of Saint Benedict, the founder of Western monasticism. The Basilica di San Benedetto and the adjoining monastery, which Benedictine ...

Therese lived alone in a little cabin in an unpeopled valley reached by a dirt road that was part of a Benedictine monastery. She’d stayed there for a quarter of a century with her husband Eric ...

For half a century, the existence of this modernist masterpiece has been mainly known to the Benedictine monks who worship there, and the hordes of architects who make pilgrimages to Saint John's ...