Every workday morning at 10 a.m., the whole staff of America Media comes together for a meeting called the “morning huddle” where a prayer, written by James Martin S.J., is read aloud.

They had prayer and Coors for breakfast, a strange-sounding combination for 7 a.m. But that’s what they had, about 800 people, mostly from the business world, at the Omni Rosen Hotel Thursday… ...

Morning prayer takes about 10 minutes—eight if you are precise and efficient, and five if you rush through it. That is 13 psalms each day; it takes 45 to 60 minutes to pray it all.