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February 01, 2023

St Benedict, contemplation and the search for knowledge should be the bedrock of a 21st-century Catholic education, says Mark Jenkins

Vocations need not be consigned to the past

October 11, 2021

In this issue, we celebrates the extraordinary life and vocation of Dom Joseph Coombe-Tennant, who died at the age of 76 in 1989. His mother was a noted psychic and he was born – named Henry – as a result of her conviction that a former spiritualist mentor wanted her to have a child by

Muggeridge on the meaning of life in a monastery

July 24, 2021

Journalist and eccentric Christian Malcolm Muggeridge visits a monastery during lambing season and thinks of the fantastic moment when men first saw their God in the likeness of a lamb.

When I Was a Young Monk in Despair

February 07, 2021

My joy, my love, my anger and lust, my inner rages, are stepping stones to prayer. It is also my connection with others, for my path, while unique, is not that much different from most people's. In my prayer, I understand that when I am healed, or being healed — for it is a life-long journey — I grow in my desire to bring all others with me.

The nuns who hold up the world in prayer

July 28, 2016

A photographer has created a beautiful tribute to the 'radical love' of women living eremitical lives

St Benedict brought light to Europe’s darkness. He can do the same in our time

July 11, 2016

The continent could learn some lessons from its patron - not least generosity and hospitality