This summer my wife and I participated in a seminar on vocation in higher education. One of the readings was Pierre de Calan’s Cosmas, or the Love of God. We and our colleagues found this book ...

The Rev. Killian (Richard) Loch, O.S.B., son of Frank J. Loch of Wilkes-Barre and the late Catherine Durkin Loch, was among four novices who completed a year of contemplation and study for the ...

I had an existential headache. Having recently finished a graduate program in theology, I was trying to figure out what was next for my life. Looking for inspiration, I accepted an invitation for a ...

Recently, the German news magazine Der Spiegel ran an article on the decline of religious communities in Germany. It makes for depressing reading, telling of large religious houses with ever-dwindling ...