“Prayer,” Pope Francis said, “cultivates flowerbeds of rebirth in places where man’s hatred has only been able to enlarge the desert.” Pope Francis bows his head in prayer during his weekly General ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis in his Sunday Angelus greeting taught that prayer is a weapon in the struggle against evil. “Above all, persevering prayer is an expression of faith in a God who calls us ...

The New York Times Can’t Take Left-Wing Violence Seriously Audio By Carbonatix Even if you think otherwise, the aftermath of a church congregation’s mass murder is the wrong time to say so. When you ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Have you been concerned about the state of our nation? We are alarmed by stories of brutality in our inner cities. While people are being attacked, others stand by videoing with their phones. No one ...

OREM, Utah — Alan Young, the 93-year-old father of Orem Mayor David Young, was invited by his son to give the invocation at the Orem City Council Meeting on Sept. 27. Young prayed to God, lamenting ...

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Blount County Sheriff Mark Moon has scheduled a prayer vigil following after a couple of violent crimes there in recent weeks. “As most of you know, the last few weeks have been extremely difficult in ...

Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans offered prayers for victims of what he described as a "sign of utter disrespect for human life" perpetrated by a man who drove a pickup truck through crowds ...

May this evil/tyrannical government be removed from the earth. (From the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgy, author’s translation) In the mahzor (prayer book) for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the ...