Every morning, for 1,005 days and counting, I have spent at least a half-hour praying with the popular Catholic prayer app Hallow — Rosaries, chaplets, Lenten and Advent devotions, lectio divina ...

At one time or another, I have been all three. Prayer has taken me to the highest highs. More often, if I am honest, it has ...

What Christian philosophers—and my daughter’s birth—taught me about petitionary prayer. On the day of my daughter’s birth, I felt abandoned by God. My wife had been induced the night before and had ...

In a Lenten departure from my movie blogging beat, I’d like to share a development in my family’s prayer life that may be of interest to others. For years we have prayed a daily rosary, a practice ...

“You, mother, father! Teach your children how to pray,” admonished Pope Francis in his weekly catechesis on the family in Vatican City. By finding time to pray, we “give time back to God,” rediscover ...

Why Scripture talks of our entreaties to God as rising like incense. Some prayers find their way back quickly, like sunlight glancing off water. Others seem to drift into the distance and never return ...