Father William Meninger may need a cane to walk nowadays, and someone to plan his travels outside of the monastery, but the 83-year-old Trappist monk is still as dedicated to bringing the practice of ...

First, I fidget. I cross and uncross my legs, fold and unfold my hands, bow and raise my head. I discover muscles I didn’t know I had, muscles that twitch, quiver, itch, and ache. So I waste several ...

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 ...

Centering prayer is catching on among Protestants in South Korea. "Nearly all Protestant prayer revolves around seeking something from God" says Reverend Lee Min-jae, a Methodist pastor from Eunmyung ...

St. Paul encourages us to “not be anxious about anything.” But how to attain such peace in our world so filled with peril and strife, as it surely was in Paul’s day, and in every chapter of history?

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 ...

WASHINGTON — What is the Spirit doing now? This question frames the “New Contemplative Leaders Exchange,” a gathering of 19 young contemplative leaders with Thomas Keating, Tilden Edwards, Richard ...

Ken Shigematsu is easily distracted. Especially at Christmas time. “It’s like a thousand chimpanzees jumping around in my head at any moment,” says the head pastor at Tenth Church, a large ...