VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Wednesday encouraged people to embrace the contemplative dimension of being human both in prayer and one’s daily life. In his general audience address on May 5, the pope ...

Pope Francis has issued a new wide-ranging set of guidelines for how the tens of thousands of Catholic women religious living in contemplative communities around the world should regulate their ...

The life of prayer is a process that has great advances and setbacks. There is no monotony when it comes to spending time with God. For those who commit themselves to pray, there is a daily adventure ...

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 ...

Move over, Headspace. There’s a new meditation app in town – and this one is 100% Catholic. Debuting under the appropriate name of Hallow, this new app features 200 sessions of prayer in various ...

St. James Episcopal Church, founded in 1744, is one of the oldest churches in Lancaster, offering traditional worship in its sanctuary adorned with Tiffany stained-glass windows and pews for which ...

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 ...

It is the spring of 2009, and I am a senior in high school when my religion teacher assigns a “marriage” project. Over the next several weeks, in the name of exposure to real-world finances, I suppose ...