The monks at Westminster Abbey wore the black habit of the Order of St Benedict, who had originally established the Benedictine rules for the monks of his own abbey at Monte Cassino in Italy about ...

For half a century, the existence of this modernist masterpiece in the United States has been mainly known to the Benedictine monks who worship there, and the hordes of architects who make ...

The property fulfills the conditions of authenticity not only with regard to the material substance, but also from the functional perspective: the convent is still a religious centre for Benedictine ...

Their order has shrunk, from being the world's largest male Benedictine monastery with 340 monks, to below 100. It is far too few for such a cavernous space. "If we could raise enough money," the ...