A technique out there purporting to be a form of Christian prayer has made inroads in countless parishes across the U.S. and Canada. Its promoters try very hard to sound Catholic and monastic, but it ...

Thomas Keating’s centering prayer movement penetrated my midwestern evangelical world in the mid-1980s. I was a teenager—a serious, anxious, bookish one. I didn’t know the tradition of Christian ...

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 ...

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?

Trappist Father Thomas Keating receives a gift in Boston in 2012 from the Dalai Lama, exiled spiritual leader of Tibet. Father Keating, who was one of the principal architects and teachers of the ...

Kathy and Mike Smith had always been strong participants in their church. But when faced with the death of their 18-year-old daughter, the couple felt they needed something more. "What that situation ...

We began our business meeting in the chapel with dimmed lights. I led the board through several calming prayers, noticing our breath and heartbeats. When I cling to anxieties or resentments, my whole ...

The Rev. Thomas Keating and the Dalai Lama at a conference in Boston in 2012, in a scene from a documentary directed by Father Keating’s nephew Peter C. Jones. SPENCER, Mass. (CNS) — A funeral Mass ...