For many years now, I have gradually and quietly become what you may call “spiritually independent.” I’m now in my early seventies, and my personal faith practice is now beyond “religion.” To put it ...

The vast majority of female scribes remain anonymous. Many likely worked in convents or lay workshops, their contributions ...

Community members along with area nuns united Monday evening to reclaim the site of violence. A Take Back the Site vigil was ...

A hundred years ago, five German nuns—Crescentia Veser, Luitgard Schanbeck, Rudolphine Bildstein, Richarda Herrman and Celsa ...

ROME—Pope Francis said the Lenten journey reminds the Church that hope in Jesus Christ ultimately overcomes fears of fragility, weakness, and the brevity of life. Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, reading ...

In St. Benedict’s Rule, written in the sixth century, a key recommendation for Lent is that all the monks and nuns read a ...

Benedict's Way of Love by Lonni Collins Pratt with Fr Daniel Homan OSB. Publisher: Paraclete PressDuring the Week of Prayer ...

Weeks after being admitted to the hospital for double pneumonia, Pope Francis has surprises followers. The pontiff sent out a ...

US film actor Matthew McConaughey (he of the slow slow and oh-so-easy-to-mimic voice), is a Professor of Practice at the ...

A priest holds a vessel of ashes as Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, celebrates Ash Wednesday ...

An ancient book found in the Vatican Secret Archives claims to predict the year of Judgement Day, which is a belief that ...

The journey of Lent "unfolds amid the remembrance of our fragility," Pope Francis wrote in his homily for Ash Wednesday.