When Father Boniface Wimmer, with 18 other young Bavarians in his charge, arrived in New York City 100 years ago, he found no one to meet them, no one to interpret, no one to show them how to get to ...
It was nighttime in the Benedictine monastery at Subiaco, Ark. The 40 monks slept soundly in their dormitory on the conventional quadrangle. Across the yard were the college classrooms, and sleeping ...