SAN FRANCISCO — The mystery of the interior life of God and how to experience even a glimpse of that life through deep, self-forgetful prayer is the subject of a new book by Fr. Donald Haggerty, ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday encouraged people to embrace the contemplative dimension of being human both in prayer and their daily lives. In his general audience address on May 5, the pope said that the ...

When the Church approaches contemplative prayer, she is led to give multiple and different definitions in her attempt to explain what it is. The multiple definitions are needed since no one definition ...

Sr. Maria Elena Romero compares the work of contemplative life in this historic Synod of Bishops to that of the soldiers who guard for attacks in the rear of a mass of soldiers during battle. "There ...

These monks dreamed of taking the church’s rich, centuries-old tradition of contemplative prayer and distilling it into a simple, easily learned prayer that ordinary people could practice. They ...

Keating wrote more than 30 books in his life, many available at Explore Booksellers in Aspen. When he died a year ago, at age 95, Father Thomas Keating was remembered around the world as a trailblazer ...

The Rev. Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk and pioneer in the worldwide Christian contemplative prayer movement, died Thursday at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, where he had once been ...

It is the spring of 2009, and I am a senior in high school when my religion teacher assigns a “marriage” project. Over the next several weeks, in the name of exposure to real-world finances, I suppose ...

I remember as a child telling my mother about a camping scene I had just read in a book. I described the scent of the evergreens and the soft crush of dried pine needles beneath brown suede shoes. “It ...

(RNS) — As the nation awaits the results of Election Day, some houses of worship are opening their doors for prayer and faith leaders are gathering in online prayer sessions. In the nation’s capital ...

As I drove down the New York State Thruway, headed toward what promised to be an inspiring event on the legacy of Trappist Fr. Thomas Keating and the Centering Prayer movement, I was anything but ...