The fourth part of the Catechism of the Catholic Church contains the Church’s universal teaching on prayer and the spiritual ...

The offering of 100 Our Fathers ... of the prayer gathering. The morning prayers were held against the backdrop of the Protestant Down Cathedral overlooking St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church.

The offering of 100 Our Fathers ... of the prayer gathering. The morning prayers were held against the backdrop of Down Cathedral overlooking St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church.

Msgr. Joseph Prior explains this Sunday's Palm Sunday Gospel account of Jesus’ crucifixion and death as a celebration of God’s love, a costly love that knows no bounds.

To his disciples, drawn by their Master's silent prayer, Jesus teaches a vocal prayer, the Our Father. He not only prayed aloud the liturgical prayers of the synagogue but, as the Gospels show ...

The prayer below, which Dave wrote for our book, The Prayer Book for Tired Parents, purely and simply spells out a father’s desire for holiness that has transformed our family. He has seen the f ...

Before the prayers began - news that Pope Francis had ... He points out that illness is simply part of the papacy. The Catholic norm is that a pope ages, gets ill, and either recovers or dies.

Anthony R. Dolan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist-turned-chief-speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan who used insights into what ...

She “stares at us with the deadpan of a Byzantine saint, a golden sun hat engulfing her head like a halo,” our critic ... O’Connor has taken off. Her prayer journal and unfinished third ...

Approaching God as a parent is a helpful framework because the love we feel as parents invests us beyond a simple ...

We know from our history that Patrick's father was a deacon and, therefore, a good Catholic. He was one who ... He was lonely and had turned to prayer and, like his father, had prayed non-stop ...