COLORADO SPRINGS — Nestled between trees in Black Forest, Sister Mary Colleen Schwarz spends every single day devoting her life to her faith. "I listen more. I'm much more compassionate, inclusive," ...

(RNS) — While the numbers of priests and nuns have declined in recent decades, many millennials and Gen Zers still find a calling to religious life in the Catholic Church, even if the path to ...

The Second Vatican Council’s teaching on the universal call to holiness, in Chapter 5 of Lumen Gentium, was a landmark in the Church’s awareness of the vocation possessed by all the baptized. However, ...

As a nursing assistant volunteering for the night shift at the Missionaries of Charity’s Denver AIDS home in the mid-’90s, Franciscan Brother of Peace Brother Conrad Richardson received a glimpse of ...

Thirty-one-year-old James Pawlowicz's journey of self-discovery began during his high school years, when he started to realize that he was a boy but he lacked the words and understanding to fully ...

Many of us are frustrated by religion. According to the General Social Survey–a large, representative survey done every few years for the past several decades–the number of Americans who say they have ...

The classic Christmas favourite, “The Bells of St. Mary’s,” is truly a slice of history. I’m an advocate of watching (quality) old movies to get a sense of the past and “the way we were.” Are older ...

Something significant is happening to religious life across the US. In just a few decades, remarkably large numbers of people have been leaving organized religion. However, this exodus is not in favor ...

Fear of making a mistake holds more people back in life than we like to imagine. If they try to ride a bike, they might get hurt. If they go into a crowd, they might not know what to say. If they move ...

Within Drexel's campus community, there are various organizations, spaces, and resources for faculty, professional staff, and students in terms of religious and spiritual life. Regarding the various ...

What do we lose when we lose organized religion, which has been in steep decline across the globe since 2007? Two new books offer very different answers — and very different approaches — to this ...

Another recent study about psychedelics proclaims these drugs can have a transformative impact on users, though in this case, the impact is not only on psychological health, but spiritual health as ...