Health and religion have always been intertwined, most obviously through prayer on behalf of the sick. Does intercessory prayer for sick people actually help heal them? For thousands of years some ...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church outlines five different forms of prayer: prayer of blessing and adoration, prayer of petition, prayer of thanksgiving, prayer of praise and prayer of intercession ...

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 ...

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 ...

If ever there was a time for Catholics to call on a saint whose charge is to “defend us in battle,” it is now. Bishops in more than a dozen dioceses are doing just that by asking that the prayer to St ...