LATROBE — Father Martin de Porres Bartel, O.S.B., a monk of St. Vincent Archabbey for 40 years and who served as the 14th president of St. Vincent College from 1995 to 2000, has been elected as the ...

HOLLIDAYSBURG — St. Vincent de Paul Monastery Community Gardens volunteers are stepping up as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn in the area. “A lot of people lost jobs. We ...

Editor’s note: Behind the Art is a recurring series highlighting artistic works throughout the county. A deeply symbolic work of art on display in St. Vincent Archabbey’s Crypt leads viewers through ...

Cardinal Bernard Law, who resigned last year as the archbishop of Boston in the wake of child sex scandals involving priests there, is making a private retreat at a Benedictine monastery near ...

In the mid 1800s, a Bavarian Benedictine monk, Boniface Wimmer, planned to build a church, seminary and college on land in Latrobe, Penn. The monastery and campus was to be self-sustaining. The ...

There may be 5,000 miles between Pittsburgh and Rio de Janeiro, but it turns out we have a lot in common. In both cities, the dominant religion is Catholicism. That faith even dominates Rio de Janeiro ...

(Updated at 1:43 p.m.) ST. MARYS (AP) – The nation’s first Benedictine convent, which opened more than a century ago, is closing after its 17 remaining members unanimously agreed it was time to ...

Quiet and contemplative. Solitary and devoted. Simple. These are some of the words used to describe the monastic way of life. For hundreds of years, Christian men and women around the world have ...

When Father Boniface Wimmer, with 18 other young Bavarians in his charge, arrived in New York City 100 years ago, he found no one to meet them, no one to interpret, no one to show them how to get to ...

St. Benedict's Monastery, St. Joseph, MN - The Eucharist of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at the Sacred Heart Chapel, Saint Benedict's Monastery, St.

The Rev. Vincent (Norbert) Filan Bechamps, O.SS.T., died on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, at Villa Saint Martha, Downingtown, Pa. He was born on July 29, 1932, in Flushing ...