Fear is antithetical to the Catholic heart, as is retreating into seclusion out of fear. Ours is a boldly incarnational faith with an attitude of universal togetherness, and the secular agenda at large is one […]
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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 15, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA).
October 15 is the feast of St. Teresa of Ávila, when the Catholic Church remembers the Spanish Carmelite reformer and Doctor of the Church whose life of p… […]
The great mystic gave us a portrait of his own manner when he sketched out his counsels on how all of us are to behave […]
From its very outset Christianity was . . . a feeling which merely disgusted, hid and decked itself out in its belief in a ‘another’ or ‘better’ life . . . a Beyond, invented in […]
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Rome Newsroom, Apr 13, 2021 / 11:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis has hailed St. Teresa of Ávila as exemplar of courage and spiritual motherhood in a letter marking fift… […]
Denver, Colo., Dec 29, 2020 / 03:00 am (CNA).- Chatting with Lee McDowell is a peaceful experience.
Seated in a comfy leather chair in a rust-colored office near downtown Denver, McDowell serenely and thoughtfully explains the “art and science&r… […]
Editor’s note: The following essay was originally given in slightly different form as an address on November 23, 2015, at the presentation of Fr. Uwe Michael Lang’s book Signs of the Holy One: Liturgy, Ritual, […]
Eleven Discalced Carmelite Sisters of Fairfield, Pennsylvania are establishing a new monastery on a 40-acre, hilltop site in the Diocese of Harrisburg, just eight miles from the historic town of Gettysburg. The nuns were originally […]
Yuval Noah Harari’s most recent book, entitled Homo Deus, argues that the “new human agenda” of the near future will consist of “attaining divinity”. […]
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