As the ritual closed and the evening wound to an end, attendees enjoyed a community potluck and friendly conversation. With the scent of incense still hanging heavy in the air, ritual participants ...

Sinéad Strong is founder of Catholic Mothers Ireland, an organization that has drawn upon the life and example of St. Brigid ...

This heritage has become more relevant to contemporary cultural and spiritual life through various movements that incorporate aspects of the pagan past into new and often creative systems of belief.

It is wrong to assert that there has been no discontinuity between the worship of pagan goddesses and Mary. Catholic theology never predicated Mary as "mother immaculate goddess." She is not the woman ...

The occasion dates right back to the time of the ancient Greeks and the Romans who used to celebrate festivals in honour of the mother goddesses - Rhea and Cybele. Mother’s Day, in its oldest ...

Then, she learned that her mother spent the better part of her childhood growing up back in Italy in an impoverished town before coming back to America. “She’d make up stories that were so ...

In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled ... Kennedy’s own mother hadn’t understood what happened to her, but Goddard, she writes, “was the woman ...

Mai Ladhi and other women in the Dulla Ballad However, overlooked in this depiction are the women in the folklore of Dulla, be it his mother ... virtual slaves or as goddesses.

Henneberry, who “currently practices the Wiccan religion,” was born in Halifax, but mostly raised in Ontario. “Your mother was involved in criminal activity. When you were four, you were ...

Jessie Inchauspé is the French biochemist and author of the books Glucose Revolution and The Glucose Goddess Method: you’ll know her as the Glucose Goddess, dropping facts and hacks about ...

The birth of AphroditeAphrodite, Greek goddess of love ... where Venus was adored as the mother and progenitor of the Roman people. Julius Caesar proudly wore a ring showing Venus in warrior ...