RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - Geri Konenkamp brings inspiration from the first World Congress of Benedictine Oblates home to Rapid City. For a Benedictine oblate, spiritual journeys don't get much more ...

Rome (Fides Service) - From 19 to 25 September at the suggestion of Benedictine Abbot Primate Notker Wolf the 1st World Congress of Benedictine Oblates will be held in Rome. Oblates are affiliated ...

A Nebraska Benedictine Oblate informational meeting will take place via Zoom at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 28. Contact Carol Olson for information and a Zoom invitation at 402-440-5214 or ...

For those interested in learning more about being an Oblate of St. Benedict, an informational meeting is planned for 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 27, in the Lau Room at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, 5401 ...

Becoming an oblate—literally “one who is offered”—means joining a particular Christian monastic community as a kind of lay associate. An oblate takes no vows but does affirm the intention to live by a ...

Christians should not use the Gospel to accuse others or speak ill of their brothers and sisters, but draw people to its message by exemplifying it in their lives, Pope Francis said. "In a globalized ...