The Vatican newspaper reported Tuesday that 29 previously unpublished homilies said to be the work of one of the most important and prolific early church fathers have been discovered in a German library. The 3rd Century theologian Origen of Alexandria is considered to have played a critical role in the development of Christian thought. Pope Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Spirituality’
Pope explains how to let God work wonders
Thursday, June 14th, 2012Pope Benedict XVI says that the life of St. Paul shows that God can work wonders through those who grow ever closer to him in prayer. “As our union with the Lord grows and our prayer becomes more intense, we too come to focus on the essential and to understand that it is not the Read more
Medicine and spirituality can go beyond life-saving heroics
Friday, June 8th, 2012
Chaplains in hospitals are expected to talk of spiritual things but for clinical staff it is different. While a holistic approach to health care is much talked about, “spirituality remains a bit hazy; hard to find words for in a world dominated by scientific method”. “Making meaning is seen as one of the important elements Read more
No ‘God Spot’ in brain, spirituality linked to right parietal lobe
Friday, April 27th, 2012
Scientists have speculated that the human brain features a “God spot,” one distinct area of the brain responsible for spirituality. Now, University of Missouri researchers have completed research that indicates spirituality is a complex phenomenon, and multiple areas of the brain are responsible for the many aspects of spiritual experiences. “We have found a neuropsychological Read more
Carmelite Third Order receives record number of new members
Friday, December 16th, 2011In recent months, the Carmelite Third Order in the British Province has been blessed with a large number of new candidates. A news story on the Carmelite website says: “In fact, the number of receptions and first or final professions within the Third Order this autumn has been something of a record-breaking bonanza!”
Read the article...Catholics in America survey — spirituality
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Much has been written in recent years about the declining hold of traditional church boundaries on Americans’ religious and spiritual beliefs and their understanding of religious truth and how it is mediated. Catholics are not immune to these cultural changes. An overwhelming majority in our survey, 88 percent, agree that how a person lives is Read more
How George Harrison changed the way we believe
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
As the lead guitarist of the world’s biggest rock band and a prolific song writer, the Beatles’ George Harrison has secured his place in pop culture history. But his greatest legacy may be the way his decades-long spiritual quest shaped the ways the West looks at God, gurus and life. Read Steve Rabey’s column in Read more
5 most common questions about prayer
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Most of us, at one time or another, send up a prayer and hope against hope for the answer we want. And more often than not, we wait and wonder, as we continually check our spiritual inbox for some sort of sign, if perhaps our prayer fell on deaf ears, or on any ears at Read more
The search for the sacred: “I am spiritual but not religious”
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Is the use of the word the phrase, “I am spiritual but not religious” an attempt to get “the warm cozy feeling” of religious life without making the intellectual commitment to what is the central question: Does God exist?” Adam Frank suggests the those who struggle to integrate their science with their theology reformulate the question. Not Read more
Lady Gaga’s “Judas’ spirituality” confuses
Friday, April 8th, 2011
“Judas,” the second single from Lady Gaga’s new album, “Born this Way” speaks about her love relationship with Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus with a kiss and afterwards killed himself. Gaga, who leaked some of the lyrics of the single via Twitter, talks about always “falling in love with the wrong man over and Read more