Loquacious and quick with a smile and a joke, the newly installed Bishop Godfrey Mullen ministers to a hometown flock, ‘people that I’ve known since I was 9 months old.’ Bishop Godfrey Mullen, then ...
The monastic ideal is opposed to anything like a "tribal" Church. It rather models a Church able to look beyond natural affinity and sustain bonds as strong as those of kinship or marriage. The ...
Our world seems to be increasingly fractured. Sadly, our Church is becoming increasingly fractured as well. We’re still reeling from the festering wound of the sexual abuse crisis. We’ve seen recent ...
JUDY VALENTE, correspondent: Seventy-eight-year-old Sister Phyllis is near death. Over a period of three days around the clock, the sisters have been taking turns keeping vigil at her bedside. SISTER ...
Archaeologists working in Upper Egypt have exposed a Byzantine-era monastery whose central church and surrounding walls carry ...
In our noisy and technologically correct secular society, mystery and silence are as absent as they are secretly craved. Two of the most austere Western monastic orders to distill this countercultural ...
The answer to all those questions is that we live a monastic life — in our prayer life, our community life, our order of the ...
When the sisters of Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles aren't hard at work on the monastery grounds, they're topping the charts with albums of sacred music. The group's Angels and Saints at ...
As anticipation builds for the historic raising of 108 Jangchub Chortens on 1st November at GMC, the public can also take ...