A blessing (from to bless, Old English bleodsian or bletsian) originally meant "sprinkling with blood" during the pagan sacrifices, the Blóts (reference: AHD). A blessing, (also used to refer to ...

The Pope Video for February was produced by the pope's Worldwide Prayer Network in collaboration with Vatican Media and The ...

"We seek to become self-reliant so we can serve others," member of Presidency of the Seventy taught during a BYU–Pathway ...

A Catholic perspective on ghost stories reveals why some apparitions may be souls in Purgatory — and why the Church urges us ...

About 400 people, including Spokane’s bishop, were praying a novena to Our Lady when a disturbed man charged the altar.

On the basis of age-old custom, water is one of the signs that the Church often uses in blessing the faithful. Holy water reminds the faithful of Christ, who is given to us as the supreme divine ...

The first Council of Nicaea 1,700 years ago was a glorious assembly for the then-young Christian church — despite the trials, ...

Salah, meaning ‘prayer’ or ‘supplication’, is also known as Namaz among non-Arab Muslims. Salah is one of the five pillars of Islam, which form the core beliefs and practices of the religion.

How is your patience today? Pastor Warren Keating tells of a Sunday morning when he had a bad cold. He was coughing, sneezing, blowing his nose, and as he readily admits, “I should have stayed ...

Pope Francis releases his prayer intention for the month of February, and urges Catholics to pray for young men and women to ...

I’m rereading one of my all-time favorite books, God’s Smuggler, which is about the true experiences of a Dutchman called ...