Although nominally a non-denominational Christian church, the Aspen Chapel echoed last Sunday morning with the sounds of some decidedly non-Christian chanting. “Innal insana lafi khusr illal ladhina ...

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 ...

Forty years of studying contemplation has led Fr. Keating to this conclusion: "All of Christianity and especially the institutional aspects and structures of it need to be regularly renewed to ensure ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the late ’90s, I was searching for a lifestyle strategy that could intensify a spiritual journey begun 10 years ago in Japan through a profound conversion experience. Learning about centering ...

The Catholic Church, like all bureaucracies, is suspicious of an empty mind. “There’s a belief — which I do not share — that when the brain is empty, the devil can get in there,” Peter C. Jones, who ...

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 ...

Silence is so much an aspect of the spirituality of the old and New Testament. Everything comes out of silence and returns to it. So it should be a part of education," Fr. Keating said. "It is through ...

The Rev. Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk who helped pioneer the Christian contemplative prayer movement, once wrote that the aim of centering prayer is communing with God as “two friends sitting in ...