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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If Father Bill Sheehan were your parish priest, the pews would be packed for every Mass he said. As it is, he’s in huge demand all over the country to lead retreats where everyone sits for hours a day ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

BRATTLEBORO -- Father Bill Sheehan, OMI, will conduct a workshop based on the Centering Prayer model of meditation on Saturday, Dec. 19, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church on ...

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?

Quieting one's self is not always an easy task in today's busy, noisy world. Doing so, however, is worth the time and effort it takes, as it can allow one to deepen his or her personal relationship ...

At 18, Sam still identifies himself as a Catholic. But if it partly defines him, it doesn't limit him. "I regularly practice centering prayer and was involved in a centering prayer group, which wasn't ...

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 ...