Automatic Web Traffic Generator

Benedict Option & Christian Resilience

They have much less confidence in the US priesthood in general (versus in their own parish ... I hope for with the Benedict Option at its best. Funny story: nobody at Sentinel, the book’s publisher, ... read more

Dutch cardinal rejects plan to sell cathedral

Cardinal Willem Eijk of Utrecht has rejected a plan by the parish board of St. Catherine's Cathedral ... Moreover, we’re not talking about an ordinary parish church, but about a metropolitan ... read more

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 ... read more

Rod Dreher’s Monastic Vision

Rod Dreher ... Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation,” which David Brooks, in the Times, has called “the most discussed and most important religious book of the decade. ... 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 ... read more

Benedict Option FAQ

We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another—doubtless very different—St Benedict. The “Benedict Option ... and what we can all learn from them. The Benedict Option has to be something that ... read more

Family’s size, love, worldview expands through adoption

He prayed for a sign while at their parish, St. Odilia Catholic Church in Shoreview ... Adoptive parent to adoption advocate Today, Alia is 20 and Alex is 22. Alex graduated from St. Benedict’s with a ... read more

The Benedict Option—not radical enough

St. Benedict made a conscious decision to withdraw from the world into a monastery, to establish a new way of life founded on communal prayer. Many critics of The Benedict Option have chided ... Most ... 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

Spending, vote-buying, and rank political opportunism

Dr Phillips might also remember that the night before Shahine Robinson and the JLP first prevailed over his party people affiliated with the PNP were seen with lanterns and flashlights repairing roads ... read more

Turns out ‘The Benedict Option’ is a hoax

May 12, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – I was a little mystified, having finished reading The Benedict Option (TBO), to discover not only ... and get personally involved in, your parish; strengthen your ... read more