When someone you care about is sick, it can be difficult to find the right words to comfort them. Prayer can be a powerful way to offer support, bringing peace, strength and sometimes, hope, to ...

I get lots of e-mails from sick people and from the friends and families of sick people asking me to pray for them, and I always do. They are strangers to me but they are not strangers to God.

If you have a friend in crisis, be sure to reach out with your support. You can also offer one of these short prayers for a friend just to make them feel loved.

The book that the bishops are voting to create will be a compilation of those prayers, drawn from multiple sources traditionally used in ministry to the sick.

They're the words a friend, a cop, texted me on an idle Tuesday: "Both low sick." He was asking for prayers for two officers shot just doing their job, serving the community, serving a petty ...

The bishops are considering publishing a new prayer book for laypeople who want to minister to the sick, especially when a priest is unavailable.