A ILHA DOS AMORES

For 38 years, the Roman Catholic Laymen’s Retreat League of Philadelphia has held an annual retreat for men near the little Pennsylvania town of Malvern. So popular have these spiritual refreshers become that last year the league held them in installments for a total of 11,882 men.

“Come unto Me”
San Inigo, founded by Jesuits, is the [...]

Now, they get their help to find themselves…and the Sacred.
Not that I ever heard one of them seeing it from this point of view… and thanking for it – but maybe the day comes.
Across the country, Catholic monasteries and convents, usually regarded as strange or the stuff of medieval myth, are besieged with would-be retreatants [...]

Holy, Holy, Holistic
By URSULA SAUTTER/KoblenzThe Arenberg convent’s once somber guesthouse and sanatorium are being transformed into a bright and airy “wellness and meditation center.”
an increasing number of Germany’s 3,300 Catholic monasteries are opening businesses — and finding willing customers. “More and more people, especially from high-pressure professions, feel the need to escape from hectic everyday [...]