God works in mysterious ways or, as Father Donald Haggerty puts it, God “speaks in the coincidences found in events, at times dramatically, at other times more quietly.” When the Register asked me to ...

We’re hard-wired to pray, but a little confused about it, too. What qualifies as a proper prayer, exactly? Why do we pray? To whom are we praying? Are our prayers answered? What gave us the idea to do ...

Prayer is the natural inclination of human beings throughout history. Our proclivity to prayer is almost as natural, and as beneficial, as breathing. It is the life-breath of the believer and the ...

The U.S. bishops have voted to approve a new English translation of some of the prayers used in the Mass. The bishops voted 189-30 today at their fall meeting in Baltimore in favor of a translation of ...