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“Instructions Before Visiting Earth” and the Taming of Gnosticism

November 12, 2026 Matthew Becklo 4

“In the event that you wake up and find your soul separated from source and manifest into material form, don’t panic. Your condition is only temporary.” So begins “Instructions Before Visiting Earth,” a poem by […]

Analysis

Losing (and regaining) our sense of the sacred in a “bourgeois” society

January 15, 2022 Jonathan Culbreath 11

In 2016, Pope Francis gave an interview to Fr. Antonio Spadaro, editor-in-chief of Civiltà Cattolica, in which he wondered why it is that so many young people are interested in the traditional Roman liturgical rites, […]

Essay

“Strange Rites” and the promise of natural religion

January 11, 2022 Bishop Robert Barron 24

Along with many other cultural commentators, I have been tracing for the past many years the phenomenon of religious disaffiliation, the sobering fact that armies of people, especially the young, are leaving institutional religion behind. […]

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Mindfulness and meditation ‘AmaZen’ employee program not religious, Amazon says

May 19, 2021 CNA Daily News 0

Denver Newsroom, May 19, 2021 / 14:16 pm America/Denver (CNA). Corporate giant Amazon will offer an “AmaZen” component to employees to encourage “mindfulness practices” as part of its revamped employee health, safety, and wellness programs. […]

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Anthony Fauci, Deepak Chopra speak at first day of Vatican health conference

May 6, 2021 Catholic News Agency 7

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a White House press briefing, conducted by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, at the White House Jan. 21. / Alex Wong / Getty Images

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Catholicism and Mindfulness: Compatible practices or contrary spiritualities?

January 7, 2018 Carl E. Olson 73

“The Church’s mystical tradition is rarely, if ever, addressed from the pulpit,” saysSusan Brinkman, author of a new book on the practice of mindfulness, “which […]

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The National Catholic Register recently published a piece, “LCWR 2013 Assembly: Little Evidence Yet of Any Reforms” (Aug. 20, 2013), by Ann Carey, a CWR contributor and author of the recently published Sisters in Crisis: […]

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