A little more than half of adults in the U.S. who participated in a Pew Research Center survey expressed support for allowing public school teachers to lead cla ...

At a time when the U.S. Catholic Church is grappling with a severe shortage of priests, the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, ...

Prayers held for 10-year-old who survived Christmas cake poisoning in Brazil. Matheus Marques da Silva has spent the last week in intensive care after tucking into the festive treat which had been ...

Holidays ran into each other for our multi-faith family this week. The first night of Hanukkah fell on Wednesday — Christmas Day. Our Hanukkah candles shimmer in the light of our Christmas tree ...

And Christmas recalls the bright star in the night that guided people to a barn in Bethlehem where an infant was born and called a king. And so we've uttered quite a few prayers this week.

But we have come to think of prayers not as a list of wishes hurled into the heavens, so much as messages we send into our own hearts. Prayers can remind us of what has lasting worth in this life.

NPR Opinion: Prayers are messages for our own hearts. Hanukkah began on Christmas this year. A reflection on celebrating both holidays in a multi-faith family.

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Mark Katrick faith column: Take a cue from cat parents everywhere this holiday season Perhaps by now God will have answered my prayers for companionship. That notwithstanding, there’s got to be ...

Retired priest George Metcalf, 88, of Afton, Minn., photographed in December 1994. Metcalf helped put together a prayer for Gen. George Patton asking for clear skies on Dec. 22, 1944 during the ...

Two elderly residents in their 80s were killed in a house fire Christmas morning, ... Scores of comments expressing sadness and condolences, and providing prayers, were posted.