Following Jesus in the way of St. Benedict is a time-tested and true way to achieve balance and growth in the spiritual life. The monastic discipline helps us prioritize and direct our efforts to draw ...

Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister has a well-earned reputation as one who dares to ask big, bold questions — of civil and church authorities, of long-held assumptions about women and their place in the ...

William Fahey, the new president of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, is no newcomer. Fahey, who became the president of the 31-year-old Merrimack, N.H., college last April, succeeding Jeffrey ...

Great cultural change — the kind that upends our social givens — always spawns division. More times than not, the changes create fissures among us that can lead to whole new contests of social ...

The end, they acknowledged, was just the beginning. It had been two years of Wednesday nights, of prayers and journal entries, of talking, of listening and, most importantly, of gazing outward but ...