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Carl Kabat, O.M.I., third from left, iholding a banner with three other Plowshares action participants after they used a jackhammer to damage a Minuteman II missile silo cover at Whiteman Air Force ...

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It’s been 30 years since Jon Kabat-Zinn launched his Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. What began as a bit of a lark—an attempt by a ...

Molecular biologist and author Jon Kabat-Zinn was a pioneer in applying the Buddhist concept of mindfulness to Western medicine and secular society. But he doesn’t consider himself a Buddhist.

The police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, showed no mercy to Jon Kabat-Zinn in May 1970. The man now considered the godfather of modern mindfulness was a graduate student from the Massachusetts ...

Oblate Father Carl Kabat is seen in this 2020 file photo. The longtime anti-nuclear weapons activist died Aug. 4, 2022, at age 88.(CNS photo/Alejandro Calderon, courtesy U.S. Province Missionary ...

Oblate Fr. Carl Kabat, one of the 1980 Plowshares Eight and a relentless anti-nuclear weapons protester whose four decades of civil disobedience drew bitter critics and many admirers, died Aug. 4 at ...

La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat is looking back on eight years leading the city. Kabat chose not to run for a third term and will be transitioning out of office on Tuesday. He says his main focuses when he ...