St. Benedict’s final public liturgical services will take place just shy of its 70th anniversary in Old Snowmass, where a ...

LATROBE — Father Martin de Porres Bartel, O.S.B., a monk of St. Vincent Archabbey for 40 years and who served as the 14th president of St. Vincent College from 1995 to 2000, has been elected as the ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG — St. Vincent de Paul Monastery Community Gardens volunteers are stepping up as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn in the area. “A lot of people lost jobs. We ...

Contemplative Outreach of Colorado’s post on their website Dec. 5 indicated a sale of the monastery was imminent, but also ...

Cardinal Bernard Law, who resigned last year as the archbishop of Boston in the wake of child sex scandals involving priests there, is making a private retreat at a Benedictine monastery near ...

Editor’s note: Behind the Art is a recurring series highlighting artistic works throughout the county. A deeply symbolic work of art on display in St. Vincent Archabbey’s Crypt leads viewers through ...

There may be 5,000 miles between Pittsburgh and Rio de Janeiro, but it turns out we have a lot in common. In both cities, the dominant religion is Catholicism. That faith even dominates Rio de Janeiro ...

(Updated at 1:43 p.m.) ST. MARYS (AP) – The nation’s first Benedictine convent, which opened more than a century ago, is closing after its 17 remaining members unanimously agreed it was time to ...

In the mid 1800s, a Bavarian Benedictine monk, Boniface Wimmer, planned to build a church, seminary and college on land in Latrobe, Penn. The monastery and campus was to be self-sustaining. The ...