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
Robert Palladino’s name appears nowhere in Steve Jobs’s lengthy authorised biography. But the one-time Trappist monk had an enduring influence on Jobs and the business empire he erected. Jobs sat in on Palladino’s calligraphy class at Portland’s Reed College. And this eventually inspired the elegance for which Apple computers are renowned. Continue reading
The little-known story of the murder of 33 Trappist monks by Chinese Communists in 1947: “The body of Christ which is the Church, like the human body, was first young, but at the end of the world it will have an appearance of decline.” — St. Augustine As I sat with Brother Marcel Zhang, OCSO Read more