Jim Finley, during a contemplative, “virtual sit”, mentioned that he did a bit of research and found that Bethlehem, the ...

(RNS) — A 38-year-old Dominican makes the fundamentals of contemplative life more accessible to laypeople.

They can refuse orders but could face consequences if the order is lawful. Members of the U.S. military have the legal right to refuse orders they believe are unlawful, but they risk violating ...

THE CALLED AND THE CHOSEN (306 pp.) −Monica Baldwin−Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($3.95). Monica Baldwin is an ex-nun. The cousin of England’s onetime Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, she took the veil of a ...

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said something the other day about the flooding and loss of precious life in Texas that was only surprising in that he put two truths about MAGA together in the same ...

Gatesville, Texas, a prison town a hundred miles north of Austin, has six correctional facilities, five of them housing female inmates. On the widely spaced campuses, each surrounded by towering chain ...

From the Greek philosopher Plato to the Buddha to modern psychology forefathers William James and Wilhelm Wundt, the value of contemplation as a means of fostering well-being and wisdom has been known ...

IN THIS HOUSE OF BREDE by Rumer Godden. 376 pages. Viking. $6.95. Novels about nuns, even if the holy ladies drive Jeeps and play baseball, have a hard time making it. When the nuns are members of a ...

As the U.S. Church celebrates National Vocation Awareness Week Nov. 3–9, a prioress of a contemplative community in France remembers how it took years for the Church to recognize the religious ...

Today, there are nine sisters and one American postulant in the order, all looking to St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and St. Benedict for spiritual guidance. The Little Sisters, Disciples of the Lamb, ...