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 ...

Theologians often describe prayer as a dialogue, but for some people it’s more of a monologue. The supplicant makes requests or recites an established prayer. But in a practice known as contemplative ...

A few years ago, I wrote in this column about a course I teach on contemplative prayer in which we read six books and then read them again. My hope is to explore reading and rereading as contemplative ...

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 ...

St. John the Evangelist, 2640 Park Drive: Workshop on What is Contemplative Prayer? from 9 a.m. to noon July 22. The Rev. Jeremy Froyen and Timothy and Karen Pedigo will lead the workshop, which will ...

Shortly before Alfred Hitchcock’s death in 1980, Jesuit Father Thomas Sullivan began visiting the legendary director at his home on Bellagio Road in Bel Air, Calif. Jesuit educated, Hitchcock had ...

FARGO - Presentation Prayer Center, 3001 11th St. S., will host a contemplative prayer retreat in honor of United in Prayer Day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on March 16. "My Confession of Love" will be ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This story was updated Nov. 1 at 10:15 a.m. Central time with details of the funeral and memorial services for Trappist Fr. Thomas Keating. Trappist Fr. Thomas Keating, a global figure ...