Twenty-five years ago, I had a prayer experience that I return to annually at Advent. At the time, I was a novice Catholic ...

SAINT PAUL, Minn. -- "Quietly come to the mediation circle." Erin Kimlinger lights a candle as new age music fills the room and her students take their positions in the circle, eyes closed and palms ...

At Pentecost, the Old Testament spring harvest festival characterized by offerings to God in the direction of the four winds, the Church is overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit coming in wind and fire. The ...

A group of more than 50 people sat inside a towering domed building set in a hillside of West Marin. Facing a wooden altar adorned with Buddha statues, the group chanted as meditation teacher Mark ...

In confirmation, the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are increased within a soul: wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, fortitude, piety and fear of the Lord. Fresco of Pentecost in Church of ...

But there is an equally venerable tradition that the Church begins here, at the foot of the Cross. When Jesus commends his mother Mary, and his beloved disciple John, to one another’s care – behold ...

The personal notes of JPII published by former secretary Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, which the pontiff asked to be burned, reveal the depth of the Blessed's keen knowledge of the mystery of the ...

A group of more than 50 people sat inside a towering domed building set in a hillside of West Marin. Facing a wooden altar adorned with Buddha statues, the group chanted as meditation teacher Mark ...