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While Mechtild of Magdeburg might well have influenced Dante concerning the imaginary shape of Purgatory (see DM Nov. 21), another woman is remembered as the
Yesterday in my DM, I did not intend in the least to trivialize mental pain, or to suggest that it can simply be cured through
As the month of November rolls on, some of us living in the Northern hemisphere experience mental suffering more than usual. Contemporary medicine has coined
The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is something that one is inclined to toss into the sentimental garbage bin, until one finds its
Dante’s scholars agree that the character of Matelda represents the “prelapsarian” human being, that is, the person not weighed down by original sin. In yesterday’s
Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297) is yet another beguine who lived in the 13th century, like Hadewijch and Marguerite Porete (see DMs Nov. 6 and 7).
Like Marguerite Porete (see yesterday’s DM), Hadewijch of Brabant was a beguine, a learned woman, and wrote in the language of the people — in
The majority of the witches’ trials and executions happened in the early modern era, with the Malleus Maleficarum — the main textbook on how to
In response to the latest report on the Palestinian occupied territories by special UN envoy Francesca Albanese, the Israeli ambassador to the UN accused her
We who live in the Northern Hemisphere have begun to experience the shortening days and lengthening nights. Tonight is marked traditionally by the feast of
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