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 ...

Cloistered religious women gathered at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome Nov. 21 for an event marking the 65th edition of Pro Orantibus Day. The conference addressed the overhaul of ...

Sr. Maria Elena Romero compares the work of contemplative life in this historic Synod of Bishops to that of the soldiers who guard for attacks in the rear of a mass of soldiers during battle. "There ...

For 11 hours a day, Lan Anh Pham ’18 meditated under rigorous Vipassana tradition in rural Wisconsin as part of a 10-day meditation retreat during her sophomore year. Upon returning to Brown, she was ...

The first time University of Virginia alumnus Jeff Walker meditated, it was on Grounds. More than four decades later, the site of his first meditation is home to the Contemplative Sciences Center, ...

The Vatican today published Pope Francis’ new apostolic constitution on women’s contemplative life, Vultum Dei quaerere (Seeking the Face of God). The document, signed on the feast of Sts. Peter and ...

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, ...

This entry on the contemplative life in the Catholic Encyclopedia explains that there are various degrees of contemplation one can obtain depending on one’s attachment to the world, one’s duties and ...

Students may continue to declare this minor through the end of Spring 2026. This minor will no longer be available to be declared beginning Fall 2026. All declared students will be fully supported to ...