Katherine Scahill, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Music, has always been interested in the overlap of music and mindfulness. She grew up playing the violin, and, as an undergraduate at ...

The monastic alternative, at least in the West, has become so deeply unfashionable that most people no longer consider the possibility, but there is, at least to me, something deeply appealing about ...

Much copy and debate has been generated by the Pew Foundation's recent snapshot of American religion. A lot of the conversation has sounded like the daily roundup of a religious stock market: who is ...

When Judith Valente, a Benedictine oblate, leads contemplative retreats both online and in monasteries around the country, she has been noticing that laypeople — whether Catholic or ...

How a book about one man’s radical quest for God helped to redefine Christian discipleship and launch the monastic movement. Alexandrian bishop Athanasius (298-373) was exiled five times from his ...

Many Catholics and Protestants are looking back to Benedict for the community and spiritual intensity they can’t find in modern culture. Christians struggling for sanctity in a too-comfortable world ...

Our world seems to be increasingly fractured. Sadly, our Church is becoming increasingly fractured as well. We’re still reeling from the festering wound of the sexual abuse crisis. We’ve seen recent ...

During his general audience on Nov. 11, Pope Benedict XVI spoke about the monastic reform associated with the famous monastery of Cluny. Founded 1,100 years ago, the monks of Cluny made the Church’s ...