Trappist priest, Thomas Keating, who was a global leader in both Christian contemplative prayer and interreligious dialogue, has died. He was 95. He died at St Joseph’s Abbey, Massachusetts, where he had been abbot from 1961 to 1981. In the early 1980s Keating began his role as one of the chief architects of the contemporary Read more
An Auckland parish priest has challenged the Church to make contemplative prayer a priority throughout its schools. Writing in an integrated schools newsletter, Fr Peter Murphy stated that Christianity is at a crossroads. Fr Murphy wrote that the New Zealand bishops’ document “The Catholic Education of School-Age Children” last year came as a wakeup call Read more
In central London, a stone’s throw from St. Pancras rail station, is one of the world’s largest libraries, container of national treasures including the Lindisfarne Gospels, begun about the year 700. Recently another Anglo-Saxon Christian treasure, which predates the legendary Lindisfarne Gospels, has been added to the famed British Library’s trove, the St. Cuthbert Gospel Read more