As we read throughout the Bible we run into common, ordinary people who pray. These people talked to God in response to him speaking to them or because of some need. Prayer seems to me to be the glue ...

Find today’s readings here. “Father, they are your gift to me. Perhaps the most famous selection from this prayer—sometimes called the “High Priestly Prayer of Jesus”—is its plea for Christian unity: ...

Photo by Daan Stevens on Unsplash. In today’s Gospel, Jesus offers a prayer just before he is arrested. While the Synoptic Gospels record the agony in the garden, when Jesus’ followers fall asleep as ...

(RNS) — Until the glorious return of Jesus Christ, it is unlikely that evangelicals and the Catholic Church will ever see eye to eye on certain core doctrinal issues. Whether it’s sola scriptura, ...

It is a providential occurrence that the inauguration of Joseph Biden as the 46th president of the United States is taking place during the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity. Jesus was clear in the ...

After praying the Angelus on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI welcomed the start of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. This year, the eight days of meditation take on the theme of "kergyma" or ...

For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page, which includes Rossing's current Living by the Word column as well as past magazine and blog content. For ...

Interceding in community is vital to the Christian life. A young Chinese woman with a rare chronic disease spent most of her days in darkness in the early 20th century. As Christiana Tsai lay in her ...

Pope Benedict recalled that Jesus chose to limit himself to the Catholic Church, adding that “all of us need to learn again to accept God and Jesus Christ as he is, and not the way we want him to be." ...

This may or may not have been, as many pundits claimed, the "most important election of our lifetimes," but it certainly has been the most contentious one of mine. In a series of reflections posted on ...