The Meddlesome Friar and the Wayward Pope Blessed Mother A Benedictine Education presents two

A Benedictine Education presents two essays by John Henry Newman which articulate Saint Benedict’s vision of a schola servitii dominici

here is a profoundly personal act of faith in which Mauriac brings the stuff of Catholic tradition to rich

and a member of the Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri

A Lutheran pastor from 1972 to 2003

repeating the solemn words from the mass for the dead…

The Meddlesome Friar and the Wayward Pope Blessed Mother A Benedictine Education presents twoBy Michael de la Bdoyre The Meddlesome Friar and the Wayward Pope tells the story of two men whom the patterns of Providence brought into mortal conflict: Fra Girolamo Savonarola of the Order of Preachers and Pope Alexander VI of the Borgia family. Each representative of certain High Renaissance ideals, they are well known as historical figures yet poorly understood as individuals. For Michael de la Bdoyre, that poor understanding obscures the