Hard to believe that The Rule, a set of monastic precepts established by St. Benedict in the sixth century, could apply to educating inner-city youth beset by modern problems of poverty, violence, substance abuse, fragmented families, and low expectations. Yet, as The Rule, a documentary by Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno, convincingly shows, an enclave of Benedictine monks in the heart of Newark, New Jersey, is finding startling success applying its code to teaching young men whom too many consider unreachable. After the riots of the late 1960s, the brethren refused to abandon their preparatory school, once the last bastion of hope for the city’s white Catholic working class. As whites fled Newark, the monks fought to keep the school open for the non-Catholi...
- 9/3/2014
- Village Voice
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