(CNN) — Father Giuseppe Pagano is furious. The 65-year-old Augustinian friar and his three fellow monks, who have dedicated their lives to silent prayer inside Florence’s Santo Spirito monastery, are ...

The Augustinian nuns of Lecceto are a small community living in a hermitage 10 kilometers (a little more than six miles) from the city of Siena in Italy. The hermitage bears witness to an ancient and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In his first official appointment, Pope Leo ...

HAMBURG — To him, Leo used to be Bob. Father Lukas Schmidkunz has known the new pope for many years. The pontiff is also an Augustinian and served as the order’s Prior General, the top position, from ...

Pope Leo XIV had already been to the convent when he served as superior of the Order of St. Augustine,... Read more ...