Meeting at Sant’Anselmo, delegates voted for new CIB statutes, re-elected Sister Lynn McKenzie OSB as moderator and gathered for the first International Benedictine Women’s Symposium since 2016.

The Abbot Presidents travelled far for this year’s synod, to a remote place in Rwanda. Abbot Javier of the Ottilien Congregation reports from that momentous gathering.

Meeting in Kraków, the Congregation of the Annunciation re-elected Abbot Maksymilian Nawara OSB, welcomed new monasteries, and renewed its international council.