, a Catholic priest who's written dozens of books about spiritual life, will talk about "Restoring Sacred Balance: The Convergence of Contemplative Traditions and Social Action" at 's annual Collins ...

But for centuries, Rohr says, Christians lost touch with this truth as contemplative practices — ways to gain inner experience of God — became less and less common. In the Catholic Church, some ...

Albuquerque, N.M. -- Franciscan Fr. Richard Rohr is the founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation and Action in Albuquerque, NM. Rohr believes that the contemplative tradition, the third of ...

WASHINGTON — What is the Spirit doing now? This question frames the “New Contemplative Leaders Exchange,” a gathering of 19 young contemplative leaders with Thomas Keating, Tilden Edwards, Richard ...

Laurie Wevers, left, 35, a mental health therapist and spiritual director from San Diego, and Tracy Bindel, 30, a law student and anti-racism activist from Boston, stand with a cardboard cutout of ...

Catholic theologian Karl Rahner once wrote that Christians behave as “mere monotheists.” That is, if Christianity ended up dropping the doctrine of the Trinity, he suggested, the day-to-day lives of ...

Richard Rohr: Well really, a whole consciousness, that's right. The whole understanding of priesthood itself, which has so aligned itself with power, money, control, and I'm not saying that in an ...

Jul. 5—I was thrilled to meet Pope Francis in a private audience at the Vatican last week. My friend, the Rev. Richard Rohr, needed a traveling companion to push his wheelchair, and I happily tagged ...

Maybe 45 years ago I read a book that introduced me to the importance of contemplative prayer and mysticism. It was Thomas Merton’s autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain. In a striking passage, the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (RNS) — Richard Rohr believes the predominant theme in Scripture and tradition is grace, which he describes as a kind of divine spackling compound that God uses to fill in the gaps ...