Father William Meninger may need a cane to walk nowadays, and someone to plan his travels outside of the monastery, but the 83-year-old Trappist monk is still as dedicated to bringing the practice of ...

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 ...

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 ...