Pope Francis greets the crowd during his general audience in the San Damaso Courtyard of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican June 2, 2021. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) Below is the text of Pope Francis’ ...

Photo by Daan Stevens on Unsplash. In today’s Gospel, Jesus offers a prayer just before he is arrested. While the Synoptic Gospels record the agony in the garden, when Jesus’ followers fall asleep as ...

I have been preaching through the Lord’s Prayer at our church the past few weeks. Jesus had a powerfully dynamic prayer life because in Luke 11:1–2 his disciples ask him a critical question: “Now ...

As we read throughout the Bible we run into common, ordinary people who pray. These people talked to God in response to him speaking to them or because of some need. Prayer seems to me to be the glue ...

As we listen to the readings today about the final event in the life of Jesus on earth -- His leaving the earth and going to heaven -- we get an impression, I think, that everything is now well ...

I am sure there have been hundreds of thousands of books and articles written about prayer: how to pray, models of prayer, answered and unanswered prayers and prayer for specific times and situations ...

Shortly before standing trial for contempt of Congress, Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist for President Trump, recorded an episode of his War Room podcast in which he vowed to ...

My thinking here came about as a result of an online (public) exchange with an atheist. He commented: I’ve always had problems with so many Bible passages that purport to document what happened either ...

Interceding in community is vital to the Christian life. A young Chinese woman with a rare chronic disease spent most of her days in darkness in the early 20th century. As Christiana Tsai lay in her ...