Draft Catalogus entries are are now being sent to congregational superiors for review. With data collection complete, we have included an illustrative table presenting current statistics of the Benedictine Confederation as of the end of 2024.
Benedictines worldwide are preparing for the 2029 Jubilee marking 1,500 years since the foundation of Montecassino. Inspired by Pope Leo XIV, Adam Simon, Coordinator of the 2029 Project, unfolds the Jubilee as a journey through places of hope: Benedictine monasteries.
Sant’Anselmo is working to establish a residential college for Benedictine women students, offering a stable community for study, prayer and formation. Prof. Fernando Rivas OSB explains why it featured in Abbot Primate Jeremias’ address to Pope Leo.
Dom Edmund Power OSB writes of an ecumenical vocation at the heart of Sant’Anselmo, shaped by Benedictine hospitality and openness to Christian traditions, and renewed by the call of Leo XIV to live unity beyond comfort zones, in the spirit of ut unum sint.
A Gregorian Chant Course at Sant’Anselmo will run from January to April 2026, offering Collegio residents structured formation in the Latin chant tradition, taught by three specialists with long-standing academic and practical experience.
From 3–10 November 2025, Benedictine, Cistercian and Trappist communities from across Latin America gathered in Salvador de Bahía for EMLA 2025, reflecting together on fraternity as a monastic and ecclesial vocation.
Father Martin Neyt OSB, a monk of Clerlande Monastery and President of the Alliance for International Monasticism (AIM) from 1997 to 2013, has passed away. His legacy is one of service to the international monastic world.
Here we share short excerpts of Confederation news.
Sant’Anselmo commissioned renowned Roman atelier LAVS to create bespoke ceremonial vestments for the 125th Anniversary Mass of the Dedication of the Church, presided over by Pope Leo XIV.
Pope Leo XIV visited Sant’Anselmo for the church's 125th anniversary. In his homily, he called the abbey a "beating heart" for the Benedictine world and monasticism a "frontier reality". Abbot Primate Jeremias Schröder reflects on his words.
