Anglican priest Tish Harrison Warren's new book attempts to translate monkish habits for Christians navigating spiritual desolation in today's comfort-seeking, digitally distracted age.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The symbolic image of the silently meditating nun or chanting monk often embodies the Buddhist religion. Such representation may make it appear that Buddhist teachings and practices are grounded in ...