Vita Monastica


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, ...

04/02/2026

Dom Ferrari: “We cannot pretend it does not exist”. Addiction within the monastery walls

From postulancy to the solemnly professed: a halt to social media and Netflix, night-time discipline, and the credibility of those who form others....

12/01/2026

Monastery, a laboratory of humanity

Monastic life as a concrete form of hope: virginity, communion, a spiritual path, and a culture regenerated by ora et labora.

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