The Conventual Priory of Prince of Peace at Tigoni (Kenia) was raised to an Abbey, 42 years after its foundation. The monks elected Fr. John Baptist Oese Imai OSB, hitherto Conventual Prior, their first abbot.

Dom Nicholas Wetz has been elected Abbot of Downside Abbey and has announced that the community will leave Stratton-on-the-Fosse.

Prima della sua elezione, l'Abate Marion Qui-Thac Nguyen era residente del Collegio mentre seguiva il dottorato in Teologia monastica presso il Ateneo. Leggi qui la sua straordinaria storia.

Fr. Julian Maria Schaumlöffel, O.S.B., the new president of the International Commission on Benedictine Education, is from Königsmünster Abbey in Meschede, Germany. Read the full biography and story here.

The newly-founded monastery of St Pachomius in N'nango was attacked on 12 May by members of an Islamist terrorist militia.

This course is cancelled.

With the theme of “2020 Vision: Seeing the World in a Single Ray of Light,” the American Benedictine Academy invites all members and other interested persons to come to Atchison, Kansas, USA from 16-19 July 2020, to share the conversation about global perspectives on Benedictine life. Register now!

Management training for today’s monastic leaders
Summer Course : 25 July - 8 August 2021
Registration deadline : 28 February 2021

Monasticism, Education and Formation Symposium | 8-11 June 2021 | Sant’Anselmo