Stories

Discernment

June 11, 2019

Nuns & Nones brings together religiously unaffiliated young adults and Catholic sisters

By Yonat Shimron

  The air was thick with ash from raging wildfires last November when five millennials with no fixed religious affiliation moved into a Roman Catholic...

June 26, 2018

Sister Joanna takes the final step to monastic life

By Katelyn Ferral

  The rite began with a question: “What do you ask?” The reply: “The mercy of God and of the Order.” Midmorning on a Saturday...

September 20, 2016

Mel Williams: What I’ve learned from Baptists, monks, Quakers and backpackers

By Mel Williams

  I’ve had a lifelong, relentless wonderment about what compels people to seek a spiritual community. “Why are you here?” I often asked myself as...