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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The supplicant makes requests or recites an established prayer. But in a practice known as contemplative prayer, the opposite is the case. As Sister Thomas Bernard MacConnell puts it, the aim is to ...

Every Sunday before 9:00 A.M., a long line of cars snakes down a tree-lined road north of Baltimore, Md. In the Chapel of a Carmelite Monastery, a diverse congregation gathers for liturgy. Retired ...

First, I fidget. I cross and uncross my legs, fold and unfold my hands, bow and raise my head. I discover muscles I didn’t know I had, muscles that twitch, quiver, itch, and ache. So I waste several ...

Contemplative prayer has always been an important part of my life. Climate activism is rather new to me. The experience that drew me in was not a storm or a heat wave, but a demonstration a few years ...