Praying for sick people does not aid their recovery, at least according to a new study of heart surgery patients. The findings will be published in the April 4 issue of The American Heart Journal. Dr.

Matt McCabe lay in his hospital bed with three pumps circulating his blood, keeping him alive. Six days earlier, the Jordan man received a heart transplant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

O sacred heart of Jesus, mercifully accept the prayer which I now make to you for help in the moment of my death, when at its approach all my senses shall fail me. When, therefore, O kind and merciful ...