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The Simplicity of St. Benedict

G.K. Chesterton said every age is saved by a saint that ... I think the “Benedict Option” can simply be a realization that we need to return to the essentials of our faith and to live out those essent... read more

The Joy Of Rad Trads

Now, he’s being moved by the Catholic Diocese of Jackson from the Starkville parish he tried to protect. Sunday morning, the Rev. Rusty Vincent announced he was being reassigned from St. Joseph ... ll ... read more

The America Profile: Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, the pro-life Catholic Democrat

Promising “a healthy dose of common sense and compassion for ordinary people,” he was the only ... Amite is inseparable from St. Helena’s Roman Catholic Parish. “My mother and father were tremendous e... read more

How a miraculous image of Jesus’ face may have thwarted St. Gallen Mafia at 2005 conclave

But to start with, I would like to say this: Some weeks ago Archbishop Georg Gänswein presented here in Rome Rod Dreher’s Book The Benedict-Option in the ... in the Parish Church of Santo Spirito in S... read more

EWTN wins lawsuit over HHS contraception mandate

The Venice bishop noted that “Benedict ... remain at the parish as pastor emeritus, and a new pastor will be appointed in due time. The Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter includes more than 40 pa... read more

More Breaking News from the Ordinariate: “A Parish Before Its Time”

Jeffrey Steenson, ordinary ... Catholic. St. Mary’s was one of only a few parishes to enter the Catholic Church under this option. It was truly, as Father Bradley quipped, “an ordinariate parish befor... read more

Bishop: Might be best for some Catholics to skip voting for president

Paprocki said some Catholics may want to consider the "Benedict Option," a plan that has gained traction ... a parochial vicar at St. Agnes Parish in Springfield, has publicly endorsed the American So... read more

50 seriously cool places to have brunch in London

If you want to skip the alcohol, we’d suggest opting for one of their antioxidant ... hear they’ve just launched a less than ordinary brunch menu available from 11:30 to 3pm. If you need a change from ... read more

Is It Time for the Benedict Option?

He envisions a grassroots movement that echoes the witness of St. Benedict. Dreher writes ... top-down “good ideas” by diocesan bureaucrats. What might a “Benedict Option” parish look like? The pastor ... read more

Rod Dreher explains the ‘Benedict Option’ and why we need it

MacIntyre said that today, we await a “new – and doubtless very different – St. Benedict ... Even though ordinary Christians are called to live in the world, the 1,500-year-old Benedictine way of life ... read more

The Sisters of St. Joseph mark 150 years of service in Florida this week

Sister Jane Stoecker, general superior of the Sisters of St. Joseph, recalled those eight original sisters who arrived from Le Puy, France, at Picolata Landing on the St. Johns River in western St. Jo... read more

my family did the benedict option before it was cool – and here’s why it doesn’t work

Eventually I realized that some of the stories were so over-the-top, mere realism would be insufficient to convey the bizarre intensity of life on the “outside” of the ordinary parameters ... why some... read more