The challenge to pray is oftentimes found in the fallen definition we give to it. We think that prayer only works when we get what we want. If we ask for something in prayer, then God is supposed to ...

Spiritual wisdom teaches us that “we die as we have lived.” Our entire lives are blessings in themselves, even as they are also opportunities for us to prepare well for a holy death and to live ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ remarks on the “wrong” translation of the Lord’s Prayer in a TV show hosted by the Italian bishops’ conference’s TV2000 network are part of a wider debate that has taken ...

This month, Pope Francis suggested that a translation of a passage from the Lord’s Prayer — “Lead us not into temptation” — sowed confusion because it implied that God actively sought to tempt us to ...

A friend was describing a lavish house she had just purchased. She listed multiple bathrooms, Jacuzzis and marble countertops, and then came the zinger, “It’s all because of God!” She is a firm ...

A Facebook post paraphrases a translation of the Lord's Prayer by mystic, author, and scholar Neil Douglas-Klotz. As Douglas-Klotz wrote in "Prayers of the Cosmos" (published in 1990), "The ...