I suppose I learned to pray like many people in the mainline church do: I memorized prayers for mealtime and bedtime, and I listened to what felt like the excessively long prayers of the people at ...

The author's Rosaries. (Courtesy of James Martin, S.J.) About 15 years ago, I was invited, along with two Jesuit friends, on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. Our hosts were members of the Order of Malta. I ...

As my Armenian family grieves for Artsakh, John 17 offers a guide for all Christians to intercede for all conflicts. The conflict over which country has claim to Karabakh began a century ago, after ...

During my first hospital chaplaincy rotation (in Birmingham), my supervisor lowered the boom one day. Verbatims - word-for-word reports of hospital encounters - shed light on "life, the universe and ...

This is our editor-in-chief’s weekly newsletter. Click here to get it delivered to your inbox on Friday afternoons. Last Shabbat, I skipped most of services to go on a walk where a rabbi taught me how ...

Prayer is a mystery. Perhaps because, whatever else it may be, prayer is communion with the living God who is, above all else, a mystery. Sadly, one great mystery of prayer is the impoverished ...

Why scientists struggle to put this spiritual practice under the microscope. Praying can be easy. A prayer can be a thought, a word, a heavenward plea from someone in need, a few lines said ...

Pope Francis said Wednesday that an essential task of the Church today is to teach people how to pray. “The Church is a great school of prayer,” Pope Francis said in his general audience livestream on ...

Recently, I was in one of our parish churches praying the church. I was paying particular attention to the stained-glass windows and was going along meditating a little on each one when I came to two ...

“The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in biblical content. I beg you to pray it.” —Pope St. John Paul II Pope Francis gives a blessed rosary to a child during his ...

Before you read any further, pause for a moment and answer this question: How do you pray? Take note that the question is not “How should you pray?” but simply ...