Some of the most soaring religious poetry ever written was composed by a tiny 16th Century Spanish monk called Juan de la Cruz—John of the Cross. From his bald head to the soles of his sandals, John ...

During the tumult of cross-country house moves, a good friend and I decided to study the Bible in a Year with Father Mike Schmitz. The following year, together we studied under his Catechism in a Year ...

Founder (with St. Teresa) of the Discalced Carmelites, doctor of mystic theology, b. at Hontoveros, Old Castile, 24 June, 1542; d. at Ubeda, Andalusia, 14 Dec., 1591. John de Yepes, youngest child of ...

St. John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes y Álvarez) (1542-1591) was a Spanish poet and Catholic mystic and priest. A member of the Carmelite order and one of the 36 Doctors of the Church, he is commonly ...

The spirituality and teachings of the “Mystical Doctor of the Church” offer an example of a man whose burdens where lightened by a love for Christ, Pope Benedict XVI said during today’s general ...

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 ...

St. John of the Cross, sixteenth-century Spanish Carmelite priest and Doctor of the Church, is one of Christianity's outstanding spiritual teachers. This lecture traces his development as poet, mystic ...

My family was blessed with having three sisters not only in blood-relation, but in religion. Three of my great aunts became nuns: Sr. Mary Di Camillo, FMA (d. 1999), Sr. Ann Dolores Di Camillo, OSF (d ...

We are in the midst of a long, deep night. From police shootings to the attack on Planned Parenthood, people are again recognizing the nightmare of gun violence that prevails in our country. When my ...

Romance Notes was founded in 1959 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is published three times a year. The journal welcomes the submission of innovative, interdisciplinary articles ...