Has anyone asked you to pray for them, especially for some specific intention? Maybe the person is seeking for healing from a health problem, or is searching for a suitable job or even a mate for ...

COMMENTARY: It’s particularly fitting that the Church this October prays the Rosary for the Synod on Synodality. Mary can help the Church today, just like at her beginning, to discern the true voice ...

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 ...

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 ...

A LOT of studies on intercessory prayer have been published in recent years. This research has returned mixed results. Some studies conclude that prayer improves health, while others show no effect—or ...

Arlyn Lawrence writes in "The Other Great Commission?": Carrie was a casual acquaintance from church—an outgoing person with a quick smile and ready words of encouragement. But something in my spirit ...

A randomized clinical trial found that five minutes of in-person prayer was linked to greater reductions in pain and anxiety than listening to soft music.R ...