Monasticism

Get thee to a nunnery - just make sure it has an eco loo (Guardian Unlimited)

2 Dec 2008

Near the end of his life Saint Benedict had an experience in which he saw the whole of reality caught up in a vision of light. For the Benedictine nuns of the Conventus of Our Lady of Consolation, this vision will be powered by the solar panels of their new home, an environmentally sensitive monastery being built in the North York Moors national park. Next year the nuns will bid farewell to ...

Benedict XVI's Address on Monastic Life (Zenit News Agency)

27 Nov 2008

VATICAN CITY, NOV. 27, 2008 ( Zenit.org ).- Here is the address Benedict XVI gave Nov. 20 upon receiving in audience the participants in the plenary assembly of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

Former Merced priest now a leading bishop (Merced Sun-Star)

22 Nov 2008

PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- "Can there any good thing come out of ..." Merced? The original form of this question is found in the New Testament, in the conversation of two brothers, Philip and Nathanael. The topic was about Jesus, and the place Nazareth, not Merced.