Sarai Quiñones believes in the healing power of prayer. The 19-year-old Housatonic Community College student credits prayer with the vision of an angel she saw weeks after being diagnosed with cancer ...

There are many different ways of praying. After giving a strong foundation to its teachings on prayer, the Catechism of the Catholic Church shifts and begins to dissect the many different ways of ...

As the church summarizes what her life of prayer looks like, she turns to the Acts of the Apostles and describes the place of the apostolic teaching, holy fellowship, the Breaking of the Bread, and ...

"Prayer in the events of each day and each moment is one of the secrets of the kingdom revealed to ‘little children,' to the servants of Christ, to the poor of the Beatitudes. It is right and good to ...

Many years ago, I served a church in rural New Hampshire. The church was located on the top of a hill. One winter afternoon, I decided to take the serpentine road from the church down to the highway.

When asked why he seemed to be wasting his time living in a monastery, the exceptional twentieth century Christian monk and writer, Thomas Merton, replied simply, “Because I believe in prayer." Most ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...