Vita Monastica


05/05/2026

Grillo, the Vetus Ordo and the Fear of Liturgical Peace: Sant’Anselmo’s Grand Chancellor in the Firing Line

The serenity with which Benedictine monasteries live out ritual plurality unsettles those who have built their public stance on permanent confronta...

22/04/2026

Young priests, old labels: how the Church is mortifying its new vocations

Amid ageing presbyteries, ideological categories well past their sell-by date and mitres that would rather anaesthetise conflicts than face them, m...

Diocese of Vienna
08/04/2026

Heiligenkreuz. For Rome, young monks are the problem, not heretical nuns without the veil

The apostolic visitation of the Austrian Cistercian abbey has concluded. Amid calls for reflection on the community’s identity, formation and futur...

08/04/2026

Dom Jean Pateau of Fontgombault: “The Church needs liturgical peace, free from rigidity and ideology”

In the interview given to Silere non possum, the abbot addresses one of the most delicate questions in the life of the Church: the liturgy. He refl...

06/04/2026

A life given to God

The monastery does not offer an escape from the world, but a demanding path of humility, attentiveness and conversion through which a man is restor...

08/03/2026

The monk: a man unified by the search for God

From lectio divina to prayer, from solitude to fraternal communion: monasticism preserves a radical form of Christian life that unifies existence, ...

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