Ana de Lobera y Torres (1545-1621), better known by her religious name Sister Ana de Jesús, helped expand the Discalced Carmelites to France and Belgium. Painting in the monastery of the Discalced Carmelites, Brussels, ca. 1650. / Credit: AnonymousUnknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Dec 14, 2023 / 10:55 am (CNA)….
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Supporters of Blessed Wenceslao Pedernera listen during the final hearing on Dec. 11, 2023, of the trial for his 1976 murder in La Rioja, Argentina. / Credit: Diocese of La Rioja ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 13, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). After seven months of hearings, the trial for the murder 47 years ago of…
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The lighting of the first Hanukkah candle during the interfaith event organized by the Kehilat Zion on the first night of Hanukkah on Dec. 7, 2023, in Jerusalem. / Credit: Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Dec 14, 2023 / 05:30 am (CNA). On the first evening of Hanukkah, Dec. 7, under a large tent in Jerusalem, an…
Amid the scattered remnants of Heraclitus, a wise old Greek who lived twenty-five hundred years ago, there are one or two fragments that have managed to find their way into the text of Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot’s poetic masterpiece on the meaning of time and history, which he reproduces in order to illustrate something of…
It has been quite the year since I first wrote critically about the “marital debt” debate. The LSU Tigers dominated the Iowa Hawkeyes to claim their school’s first NCAA title; we discovered that parrots like video calls; and I was forced to scroll through endless “Barbenheimer” memes. Oh, and my wife and I had a…
