Jennings Beach in Fairfield, Connecticut might just be the antidote to your wanderlust without the hassle of airport security ...

Thirty years ago, in the airless rooms of the Museo de Bellas Artes in Seville, I came across a whole corridor of female ...

People often look for retreats when life becomes noisy, but noise is not always external. It shows up as mental clutter, ...

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Lessons on intentional living from the modern monastic movement. The most tasteful invitation to contemplative prayer I have ever experienced was in a garden next to a charming British mansion. Along ...

Sister Anna Maria of the Sacred Heart, an Italian nun, turned 106 March 14 at her monastery near Milan, where she continues to serve her sick sisters and share reflections on the Gospel on YouTube.

Plato's Allegory of the Cave examined the radical possibility that our understanding of reality may be based on only a limited number of shadows. The philosopher Plato, who was an idealist of sorts, ...

ROME (OSV News) — Norwegian Bishop Erik Varden preached a series of meditations for the first Lenten retreat of Pope Leo XIV and the Roman Curia, reflecting on the splendor of truth and the Christian ...

TALISAY CITY, Cebu— On the eve of Ash Wednesday, the head of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines urged contemplative women to turn inward, seeking wholeness of mind, heart, and spirit ...

On most Monday nights, the sanctuary of All Saints Episcopal Church — with its vaulted ceilings, stone arches and stained-glass windows — seamlessly transforms into a space of quiet contemplation.

(RNS) — Sister Mary Magdalene of the Immaculate Conception Prewitt, a 38-year-old nun in the Dominican order, is often asked how she got from her upbringing in Kansas to life in a monastery in New ...