In the following directory we have been able to list only a small percentage of the many spiritual retreat centers in the United States. However, we have tried to cover a diversity of some of the oldest and most popular sites. These include Zen centers, Christian abbeys, Yogic ashrams, ecu...
Born into the noble Fiumi family, Ortolana (sometimes called Hortulana) was a descendant of a lineage of knights and was raised with deep Catholic faith and piety. Before her marriage, she embarked on numerous pilgrimages to sacred sites, including Rome and the Shrine of Archangel Michael on...
Our Dialogue began with two excellent, well-thought-out presentations by Hindu scholarMadana-gopala Dasa (Mehul Barot)and Catholic professorPatrick BelDio.Both asserted the centrality of love for all human beings and all of Creation. All love must be grounded in Love for God as each tradition ...
If you have ever been anticipating a big trip, you know how this works. The trip to your destination always seems to take much longer than the return journey. Back in May of this year, we started our journey through the longest continuous season of our liturgical year – 27 weeks of Ord...
Certainly the spiritual individual will evince good works, but noble deeds alone do not bestow that quality. Paul wrote: “...for by grace have you been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works, that no man should glory” (Eph. 2:8-9;...
One of the greatest theologians of the 20th Century and who has influenced me is someone by the name of Hans Urs von Balthasar, who is a Swiss-German Catholic figure. And he wrote way too many books. He was one of the prolific theologians in church history. ...
I don’t know that the earth, or the people on it, spend enough time or even very much time crying out to God with joy, or proclaiming “his glorious praise.” I don’t see us, the people God created for His own, answering the invitation to “Come and see the works of God, his...
We recognize Adam Clarke as a pioneer in the comparison of biblical texts, known as lower or textual criticism. Yet Clarke concluded, “Men may err, but the Scriptures cannot; for it is theWord of God himself, who can neither mistake, deceive, nor be deceived” (Works, 12:132, see als...
Furthermore, it might be that they cannot develop their deeper and more authentic autonomy because of accidental attachments and cravings (or unquestioned aversions), that they are clinging to elements of the objectual–phenomenal world, that they are at the mercy of passions, that their binding ...
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