Think of all the seemingly holy priests who molest children, gurus who get into sex scandals, spiritual teachers who abuse their followers, religious public figures who get caught in big lies, and those who appear to be full of light but actually have a very sadistic dark side. This is a ...
“Caleb Wilde shows us how his faith was transformed and deepened as he allowed death to ‘quiet’ his faith rather than trying to manage death through his religious anxiety. I never thought of a funeral home as sacred space, but I do now. And I’m glad for it.”– Peter Enns, autho...
As a country with great religious and ethnic diversity, Bulgaria should consider its material heritage from the Ottoman times as well as the diversity of people, ethnicities and religions that live in the country and are Bulgarian citizens as a treasure, not as a threat to some old-fashioned c...
"Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the lover of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self." St. Augustine, DE CIVITATE DEI, Book XIV, Chapter 28
A boundless and generous contentment, a magnanimous triumph felt not against some outer enemy but in communion with the finest and fairest in the souls of all men everywhere and the splendor of the world’s summer; this is what swells the hearts of the people of Omelas, and the victory ...
But you should always keep it in your mind that private questions about salaries, family life, religious beliefs and politics should be avoided during these conversations. Besides, it's better to ask open-ended questions. If you ask visitors "Do you like our city?" They may say simply "...
Since it is a religious society, there must be a unity in worship. It is this unity of worship that signals to the world that the Church is one. Man, on his own, is incapable of worshipping God in a fitting manner. For that, God must reveal the form of worship that is pleasing...
She was a religious of the Visitation Order, and Christ appeared to her on a number of occasions with revelations about the love of His Sacred Heart for mankind. The first of these took place on December 27, probably in 1673, while Margaret Mary was a nun in the Visitation convent at Pa...
The Puritans, of course, weren’t alone in this religious intolerance in the land of the free. As a matter of expedience, the King of England granted Maryland as a place to isolate and assuage the Catholics. Maryland was tolerant. Sort of. Unless you refused to confess belief in the tri...
Theanchoritesof the Middle Ages were not professed members of the religious communities themselves (ie not under the solemn vows of the nun or monk). Rather, they were lay people who wished to live in seclusion, under the protection of the church, so as to separate themselves from the munda...