The Thaipusam festival at Sri Subramaniar Temple in Masai set a state record this year with a turnout of more than 60,000 ...

These women did incredible things. They worked, they raised families, they challenged the status quo or, better still, they ...

The phrase appears in St. Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians, describing St. Paul’s affliction that was meant to keep him from becoming arrogant.

When she first appeared, in newspaper columns written by the British journalist Helen Fielding during the mid-1990s, the ...

Some tourists and influencers behave badly at religious sites and during religious festivals just to create content.

22 The mortification of keeping quiet about any ... 33 "Mary has gone to heaven in both body and soul, and the angels rejoice. I can imagine, too, the delight of St. Joseph, her most chaste ...

The Michigan Court of Appeals has upheld the lower court ruling that granted governmental immunity to Manton Police Chief Michael Long, dismissing him from a lawsuit that accused ...

Infirmity of body and bitterness of soul have caused ... We must die through mortification and penance, so that Christ may live in us through love. And then follow in the footsteps of Christ ...

It recalls "with what labors and pure love" Mary prepared the tabernacle of her body and heart, alone deserving to receive ... With her as our patron, may we present to Him "the myrrh of the ...

An archaeological discovery near Jerusalem has shaken the foundations of historical knowledge about asceticism in the Byzantine era. A team of scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science and the ...

mortification of the body, control of the senses, temptations, confession, penance, love, and external matters. Healthcare is a trope that runs throughout the book. In the very first part, “Devotions, ...