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The nice thing about the human body is that it wears out. It wears down.
In Imam Jamal Rahman's Sacred Laughter of the Sufis, he tells a story that may have as much to teach us today as i
July 22 is the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, “the apostle to the apostles.”
July 22 is the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, “the apostle to the apostles.”
A new blog post on Patheos reflects on the author's encounters with Joan Chittister's lectures and writings and their impact on him.
On July 11, we celebrate the feast of St. Benedict of Nursia.
The word synodality has been around a year or so now and people are still asking what it really means — for them, of course.
One of the great Benedictine virtues is “enoughness.” The interesting thing about enoughness is that it is not imbued in the monastic by a chart or canon of weights and measures, as in “You m
Joan Chittister’s latest column in the National Catholic Reporter offers hope for what might come from the Church’s latest efforts to become truly synodal.
In a culture where change is swift and common, in a world where movement is global and given, in a society where three careers and two marriages are commonplace, the very notion of fidelity s
“Why are sensible, educated, moral adults allowing the so-called political leaders in this country to go on enabling the militarization of what has always seen itself as a peaceful society?
Changing the way we go about life is not all that difficult. We all do it all the time. We change jobs, states, houses, relationships, lifestyles over and over again as the years go by.
Once upon a time, there was an elder who was respected for his piety and virtue.
There is a magnet in a seeker’s heart whose true north is God.