The Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer — a planned U.K. monument made of one million bricks representing one million answered prayers — promises to be the “largest symbol of hope in the world.” “Each brick will recount a personal, specific way in
An 18th-century prayer for the government composed by the first U.S. Catholic bishop is still relevant today, according to Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore. “The prayer of Archbishop John Carroll is timeless in elegance and its completeness and evinces a deep
A reader writes: I have been reading St. Faustina’s diary and have been saying the novena of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for some years now. When saying these prayers, I always wonder why we need to pray for meek and humble
The Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, approved for public use by Pope Leo XIII in 1899, is a compilation of various litanies originating in the 17th century. The Sacred Congregation for Rites included these invocations when approving the litany for
Two archbishops and a cardinal are calling on Catholics in the U.S. to pray and make reparations to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, as a professional sports team plans to honor a group parodying women religious.
"We call on Catholics to pray the
Christians talk all the time about how God is their friend, columnist David Mills writes, “but ‘friend’ seemed just a way of saying ‘he loves you.’ Nice, but vague. … One of the great privileges of friendship is hanging out together without
A reader asks: “I was recently reading a prayer of consecration wherein we were asking the Lord and our Lady to make us slaves to the will of God. How is this not outrageous and horrifying given the history of slavery in
Editorial director and columnist Gretchen Crowe shares one of her favorite prayers: “One of my favorite prayers is composed by Blessed James Alberione, an Italian priest, Church communications visionary, and founder of the Pauline family. Called ‘To Overcome the Predominant Passion,’ it,
We think of poems as solitary things, and yet they reside within us -- quiet compasses of right orientation. In prayer, especially, they are knowing and comfortable friends.
‘Have mercy and save us’: Ecumenical prayer service at national basilica pleads for peace in Ukraine
Marking the first anniversary of the Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and praying that God will "have mercy and save us" and "convert those who foster aggression and war," Washington Cardinal Wilton Gregory and Metropolitan Archbishop Borys Gudziak, the Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop