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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leaders from Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa offer guidance on interceding for believers suffering for their faith. Each November, the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) calls for an ...