Monasticism can also seem strange and confusing. In books, museums, and historical buildings, we often come across terms like ‘Benedictine’ and ‘Cistercian’, or ‘Dominican’ and ‘Jesuit’, without ...

When Judith Valente, a Benedictine oblate, leads contemplative retreats both online and in monasteries around the country, she has been noticing that laypeople — whether Catholic or ...

THESE volumes form the first instalment of a work in which one of the great lights of the Romish Church in our day proposes to recount the glories of Western Monasticism, and to narrate the lives of ...

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Part I. Structural Mechanisms: The Institutional History of Monastic Education: 1. From the Sala Vat to the Institut Bouddhique -- 2. Wandering Librarians -- 3. Kings and Universities -- Part II.