“I trust no one will call me a mystic—a name, in its strict theological sense, too high, and in its popular sense (I hope) too vague, to describe me; but it ...

A Catholic who reported having had some sort of mystical experience is not automatically a candidate for sainthood, Pope Leo XIV said, but such a report is not a reason to dismiss a candidate either.

AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — Sandy Davis Kirk woke at 5 a.m. on July 4 to a roaring sound outside her window. “I heard people shrieking from the waters,” said Davis Kirk, whose backyard is bordered by the ...

What are we to make of the variety of spiritual experiences? Michael Hughes was 22 years old when he had a mystical experience at a Maryland Catholic church. “It was almost as if I had wandered into ...

Once or twice a month, Bernard McGinn receives an email from someone wanting to talk about their “special” experience. Many pose questions like, “How do I know if I’ve really had a mystical encounter ...

An Anthropocentric-Christocentric Mystagogy. A Study of the Method and basic Horizon of Thought and Experience in the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. (University of Münster Offset, ...

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(RNS) — ‘Studying the mystics can help us learn to mine the depths of ourselves and learn how to discern what we trust within ourselves,’ said Shannon Evans of her new book based on the lives of ...