VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said Wednesday that Christian meditation is a way of encountering Jesus and not “a withdrawal into ourselves.” Speaking at his general audience April 28, the pope reflected ...

Researchers compared the immediate effects of hypnosis, mindfulness meditation, and Christian prayer on pain intensity and tolerance. The results suggested that a single session of hypnosis and ...

You could call it a religious war of words, with the West Coast serving as one of its most intense battlegrounds. The bid to win hearts and minds pits Buddhist meditation against Christian prayer, ...

The Spanish bishops' conference said that the "mindfulness" movement and other eastern meditation techniques cannot be considered a "properly Christian" practice of prayer. The Spanish bishops' ...

A national survey of more than 26,000 U.S. adults conducted by the Centers for Disease Control found that the use of meditation increased more than threefold between 2012 and 2017, from 4.2 percent to ...

Fr Laurence Freeman OSB, spiritual teacher of the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM), is visiting New Zealand in April. A monk of the Monastery of Christ the King in Cockfosters London in ...

There was a time, the Rev. Laurence Freeman says, when meditation was taboo in much of Christianity. "Protestants thought it was too Catholic, and Catholics thought it was too Protestant in that it ...

Hello and welcome to Compass. I'm Geraldine Doogue. Tonight, as a day of national mourning ends, we bring you a timely program that might help us deal with the painful shocks of the last week. After ...

After receiving some criticism over my recent commentary, “Why Centering Prayer Falls Short of True Intimacy With Christ,” the Register invited me to respond to the most important and common ...