PRAYAGRAJ, India (RNS) — On a warm January evening, sadhus and devotees surrounded Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, the former reality TV star, jostling to get a selfie with her. She obliged them one by one, ...
For some, the term monasticism may bring up images of chanting monks or helpful nuns. For Matt Scraper, monasticism is an important part of his life and faith as an elder in the Oklahoma Conference ...
In our noisy and technologically correct secular society, mystery and silence are as absent as they are secretly craved. Two of the most austere Western monastic orders to distill this countercultural ...
Until a few months ago, the parishioners at St. John the Baptist Church in Costa Mesa were used to seeing a lone harried cleric conducting daily Mass. The attendance of only one priest at services has ...
Saint Romuald, who founded the Camaldolese monastic order during the early eleventh century, has his liturgical memorial on June 19. Working within the Western Church's Benedictine tradition, he ...
The Malta Institute of Cultural Studies (MIOCS) has just published the second issue of the Journal of the Monastic Military Orders, edited by Comm. Dr George Gregory Buttigieg. The full colour ...
(The Conversation) — The symbolic image of the silently meditating nun or chanting monk often embodies the Buddhist religion. Such representation may make it appear that Buddhist teachings and ...
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