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 ...

I grew up in the northwest corner of the state where jutting up on the prairie an abbey and monastery stand like holy skyscrapers, farmland all around. I once visited the abbey, with a monk saying he ...

Pope Francis’ prayer intention of the month of November is for himself — the pope. “Pray to the Lord that he will bless me,” Pope Francis said in a video released Oct. 31. “Your prayer gives me ...

I used to let my little brother out of his crib in the middle of the night so the two of us could stand hand-in-hand at the living room window watching the streetlight in front of our house. The light ...

Pope Francis, currently hospitalized in Rome with double pneumonia, has called on the worldwide Catholic community of 1.4 billion people to pray for him as he continues his recovery. In a written ...