A Carmelite priest was gifted the relics of Saint Valentine, now enshrined in Our Lady of Mount St.Carmel, Whitefriar Street Church, Dublin. He will be forever linked with St. Valentine, but John ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

Some 200 women have been trained allowing them to be independent and help their families. KOLKATA: Sister Mary Mukta Kindo belongs to the order of the Discalced Carmelites of the Apostolic Carmel. She ...

Ancient-genomics researchers have pinpointed the homelands of a nomadic tribe that transformed the culture and genetics of Europe and Asia, revealing a potential source for the Indo–European ...

Psychedelics have been recognized as model interventions for studying altered states of consciousness. However, few empirical studies of the shamanic state of consciousness, which is anecdotally ...

Sister Patricia Scanlan, a member of the Carmelite Sisters of Baltimore for more than 70 years who cared for the ill, died Jan. 19 at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. She was 92. “Sister ...

Recently, I had the unique opportunity to experience a men’s silent retreat at the Carmelite Monastery in Alhambra, California. It was an irreplaceable spiritual exercise — a profound ...

And although all this has been experimentally recorded by researchers for some time, there are still ongoing debates regarding the physical nature of these experimentally observed features.

The eruption is believed to have contributed to the decline of the ancient Minoan civilization which had flourished in the region. Although it is still an active volcano, the last notable eruption ...

20 years after the conclusion of the original film trilogy, The Lord of the Rings returned to the zeitgeist with a beautifully shot half-billion-dollar season of television, and the promise of new ...

Long ago, a substantial ancient Greek population from the island of Crete lived in the ancient city of Daedala, located in south Asia. Credits: Dosseman / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Long ago, a ...