Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I understood it was Love alone that made the Church’s members act, that if Love ever became extinct, apostles would not preach the Gospel and martyrs would not shed their blood ...

Tucked within the rolling hills of northwest Missouri is the campus of Conception Abbey, a Benedictine monastery that has been part of this landscape since 1873. Abbot Gregory Polan, Conception’s ...

[Interviewer] Father, you said earlier that Father Theodosius practiced hesychasm. Did you learn the Jesus Prayer from him? No. He never talked with me about the Jesus Prayer. I learned the formula ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where, according to the Gospel, Jesus spent the last night before being ...

Scores of Catholics and other practicing Christians pray the rosary all year long — and many bestow gifts of rosaries on family and friends for Christmas and other special occasions. What is the ...