Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a ...

St. Teresa has left a classical dscription of the sort of life led by these first Discalced Carmelites, in chaps.xiii and xiv of her "Book of Foundations". John of the Cross, as he now called ...

There are so many mistaken notions about St. John of the Cross (1542-91) that we might do well to clarify some of them at the outset. He is, of course, most identified with the phrase dark night ...

What has been a good follow-on study to both of these courses in the Catholic faith has been studying together The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross. During lockdown in 2020, I bought ...

Along with Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross remains one of the West's most well-known and beloved mystics. And like Teresa's, his writings are masterpieces of ecstatic poetry, depicting a lover ...

The Pope spoke of the 16th-century St. John of the Cross, continuing his series of general audience teachings on doctors of the church. John was born near Avila, Spain in 1542 and ordained a ...

Today is the feast of St. John of the Cross, poet, mystic, founder, with St. Teresa of Avila, of the Discalced Carmelites. "He was born Juan de Yepes, third son of Gonzalo de Yepes and Catalina ...