Opening of the silver tomb of St. Teresa of Ávila; portrait of St. Teresa of Ávila / Credit: Order of Carmel
ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 29, 2024 / 14:09 pm (CNA).
The Diocese of Ávila in Spain reported Aug. 28 that the body of St. Teresa of Ávila, a… […]
Two millennia of Christianity have yielded a tremendous number of brilliant, holy, and insightful men and women. Many of these men and women penned works of staggering beauty and spiritual insight, which have become widely […]
In the history of the Catholic Church, various saints and blesseds have described what hell is like and even the precise place where the “bad” Christians would be. / Credit: Guido Jansen/Unsplash
ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 27, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA)…. […]
My last column delved into the Church’s belief that each creature—even those we find irritating or inconsequential—mirrors the beauty of the divine Logos in our world. Yet, even as every feature of the cosmos reflects […]
Ana de Lobera y Torres (1545-1621), better known by her religious name Sister Ana de Jesús, helped expand the Discalced Carmelites to France and Belgium. Painting in the monastery of the Discalced Carmelites, Brussels, ca. 1650. / Credit: Anonym… […]
Editor’s note: The following homily preached on January 16, 2023 for the day of recollection for the faculty of the Donahue Academy at Ave Maria University. In our opening session this morning, I suggested considering […]
Fear is antithetical to the Catholic heart, as is retreating into seclusion out of fear. Ours is a boldly incarnational faith with an attitude of universal togetherness, and the secular agenda at large is one […]
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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 15, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA).
October 15 is the feast of St. Teresa of Ávila, when the Catholic Church remembers the Spanish Carmelite reformer and Doctor of the Church whose life of p… […]
The great mystic gave us a portrait of his own manner when he sketched out his counsels on how all of us are to behave […]
From its very outset Christianity was . . . a feeling which merely disgusted, hid and decked itself out in its belief in a ‘another’ or ‘better’ life . . . a Beyond, invented in […]
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