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.

In the early Church, the Desert Fathers and Mothers believed prayer and life to be one. Abba Poemen, an early Desert Father said, “Teach your mouth to say what is in your heart.” Or, as Franciscan ...

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.

The path of prayer is marked by hurdles and struggles that need to be overcome and faithfully endured. Prayer is the long spiritual walk that leads us out of ourselves and its fallenness and into the ...

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 ...