Tag: prayer

By Woodeene Koenig-Bricker Our lives have knots that can seem impossible to untie: marriage troubles, money problems, unemployment, illness, loneliness, fears and worries of all...

Whether our hopes for this summer have been fulfilled or not, the season is waning. Most kids have returned to school, and the full...

By Dr. Greg Popcak, OSV News "I did all the things," said Carli, mom of four grown children who have stopped practicing the Catholic faith....

By Megan Nye, OSV News Boisterous children, unwashed dishes, office deadlines and a cozy bed at the end of a long day -- all of...

By Lorene Hanley Duquin, OSV News Do you feel like you're on a treadmill that never stops? Do you need some quiet time? Some family...

There is a saying, dubiously attributed to St. Francis de Sales but it sounds more like Venerable Fulton Sheen to me: "Every one of...

By Celia Wolf-Devine, OSV News Regular prayer has always been regarded as an essential part of Christian life. In the psalms, the believer is compared...

Touching on an incident where a priest hearing confessions was pepper-sprayed, a recent article from OSV News looked at how clergy and layfolk might...

Living liturgically means approaching Lent as a built-in annual retreat. For most Catholics, that takes a time-tested and traditional shape. Prayer, fasting and almsgiving...

Q: When I was Evangelical, we were told Jesus wanted to heal us, every time; we need only ask “in his name.” If we...