Ecclesia et Civitas

Benedictine Options

May 2, 2017 James Kalb 2

“Benedict Option“ is a fertile expression that could refer to several things worth discussing. Saint Benedict had one version of what it means, Rod Dreher has another, and commentators have presented still more. For Benedict himself […]

The Benedictine Option

March 6, 2016 Dr. Randall B. Smith 1

Rod Dreher has suggested something he calls “The Benedict Option” as a response to the decline in religious faith and practice — and in the face of the increasing hostility toward them — in contemporary […]

The Dispatch

The Salesian Option

January 24, 2024 Aquae Regiae 16

I have always had a particular fondness for the Saints of the Counter Reformation, perhaps because they were such exemplars of apostolic zeal in a time of great social upheaval. They were men and women […]

The Dispatch

Benedict contra Benevacantism

August 7, 2022 Dr. Edward Feser 18

I’ve been reading the second volume of Peter Seewald’s Benedict XVI: A Life  There is much of interest in it, including a new interview with Benedict at the very end.  Some of what he says is relevant to […]