Sarai Quiñones believes in the healing power of prayer. The 19-year-old Housatonic Community College student credits prayer with the vision of an angel she saw weeks after being diagnosed with cancer ...

There are many different ways of praying. After giving a strong foundation to its teachings on prayer, the Catechism of the Catholic Church shifts and begins to dissect the many different ways of ...

As the church summarizes what her life of prayer looks like, she turns to the Acts of the Apostles and describes the place of the apostolic teaching, holy fellowship, the Breaking of the Bread, and ...

Many years ago, I served a church in rural New Hampshire. The church was located on the top of a hill. One winter afternoon, I decided to take the serpentine road from the church down to the highway.

"Prayer in the events of each day and each moment is one of the secrets of the kingdom revealed to ‘little children,' to the servants of Christ, to the poor of the Beatitudes. It is right and good to ...

When asked why he seemed to be wasting his time living in a monastery, the exceptional twentieth century Christian monk and writer, Thomas Merton, replied simply, “Because I believe in prayer." Most ...

What do we mean when we say “our thoughts and prayers are with you”? Has this become so routine in our public discourse as to become meaningless? We in this country along with our neighbors to the ...

When I was going to school at the University of Notre Dame, I would go down to the Grotto the night before a big test and light a candle. My prayer went something like this: “Lord, I know I didn’t ...

To complain to God in moments of doubt and fear like Abraham did is not something bad but rather is a form of prayer that requires the courage to hope beyond all hope, Pope Francis said. While in life ...

Jewish liturgy can feel archaic or demanding, but its oldest words still have something to say to our most contemporary struggles, writes the host of the “Thoughts and Prayers” podcast. Several years ...