On a recent trip to Albuquerque, N.M., I had the opportunity to visit the Center for Action and Contemplation. The center was founded almost 25 years ago by Franciscan Fr. Richard Rohr to provide ...

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 ...

Franciscan Father Richard Rohr (Photo via the Center for Action and Contemplation) Today, the Center for Action and Contemplation announced that founder Richard Rohr, O.F.M., is retiring from his ...

Franciscan priest Richard Rohr—author of, among other titles, The Naked Now and From Wild Man to Wise Man—has written his most sage, most important book yet. The message of Falling Upward is ...

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 ...

“Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.” I read those words weeks ago when the horrors of ISIS and Boko Haram first broke into our consciousness. Richard Rohr, a Franciscan ...

Franciscan Father Richard Rohr poses for a photo with Oprah Winfrey on the set of "Super Soul Sunday" during the taping of the show Nov. 12, 2014. I really hoped I would be holy by now. Or, if not ...

A lot of what passes as religion in America today only helps perpetuate false narratives people create for themselves about who they think they are, says noted theologian Fr. Richard Rohr. If they ...

RICHARD ROHR: There’s no place where you can’t pray. JUDY VALENTE, correspondent: Richard Rohr, a Catholic priest, is addressing a packed house at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Oregon. ROHR ...

Not long ago, on his way to the post office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Richard Rohr, a seventy-six-year-old Franciscan friar, had a spiritual experience. “This light is interminably long,” he told me ...