Praying at church or home for an individual's or group's wellbeing is just fine, but sometimes it's more effective do it in person, some religious leaders say. "There is something powerful about being ...

Unless facing an emergency, most people don’t get serious about prayer. And yet, it’s one of the greatest opportunities we ...

Pope Benedict XVI said at the June 1 general audience that intercessory prayer helps us to grow in deeper knowledge of God and his mercy and makes us more capable of loving others in a ...

A recent call to a locksmith led to more than I bargained for: a discussion of the Virgin Mary and intercessory prayer. I'd been testing keys from a box left by our new church's former owners when ...

This truth is expressed succinctly in 1 Thessalonians 5:17. It says we’re to “pray without ceasing,” while another ...

COMMENTARY: Five years after his beatification, reports of answered prayers large and small reveal how the Knights’ founder ...

People have asked me to pray for them or for their loved ones all my adult life. I practice intercessory prayer very seriously, but that doesn’t stop me from wondering what I’m doing. Is intercession ...

COMMENTARY: It’s particularly fitting that the Church this October prays the Rosary for the Synod on Synodality. Mary can help the Church today, just like at her beginning, to discern the true voice ...

Some questions just will not die. “Why is there something instead of nothing?” is a perennial. Perhaps the second-most persistent question is this: “Is yawning contagious?” or “Why is yawning ...