Any friend of God is a friend of mine, but the Spanish Carmelite Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) will always have a special place in my heart. Hagiographic accounts relate the story of St. Teresa making ...
Toward the close of his masterpiece Being and Time (1927), the great German philosopher Martin Heidegger raised a question that would become fertile ground for science fiction. Why does time only run ...
St. Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) has gone down in Christian history as a philosopher, mystic, and leader at a time when such spheres were dominated by men. A descendant of Jewish conversos forced to ...
The new St. Teresa of Ávila Prayer Garden at Boston College, which memorializes a Carmelite nun and important religious reformer, was formally dedicated at ceremonies led by University President ...
The Diocese of Ávila in Spain reported Aug. 28 that the body of St. Teresa of Ávila, a doctor of the Church, remains incorrupt after her death on Oct. 4, 1582, almost five centuries ago. “Today the ...
A scientific reconstruction of what would have been the face of St. Teresa of Ávila when she was 50 years old was presented recently in Alba de Tormes, the town in Salamanca province in Spain where ...