Lord’s Prayer
The Jewish roots of the Eucharist
By Thomas Reese — January 31, 2023
(RNS) — Today’s Christian Eucharist is a combination of the Jewish synagogue service and Passover meal as adapted by the early Jewish Christians.
What is the rosary? Why a set of beads and prayers are central to Catholic faith
By Kayla Harris — November 10, 2022
(The Conversation) — Rosaries are meant to be used wherever, whenever – and each one tells a story.
Comparing Biden’s student debt plan with God’s own loan forgiveness
By Mark Silk — August 30, 2022
(RNS) — How does the president’s student loan forgiveness plan measure up?
Sister Janet Mead, who turned the Lord’s Prayer into a ’70s rock hit, has died
By Bob Smietana — January 27, 2022
(RNS) — Sister Janet Mead wanted to reach young people so she started singing rock music — but she was never comfortable with fame and devoted her life to charity work.
Bruce Springsteen’s run for home
By John Fea — January 9, 2019
(RNS) — With a surprising resort to prayer, the Boss acknowledges that his relentless quest for the American dream can't be separated from tradition, roots, place, a longing for home, and faith.
What would Jesus say? European Catholics grapple with Lord’s Prayer translations
By Tom Heneghan — January 31, 2018
Paris (RNS) — Welcome to the confusing world of Catholic translations, where linguistics, theology, ecumenism and power politics clash despite the church’s claim to universalism.
A pastor’s encounter with the ‘demonic’ at Trump’s Florida rally
By Lauren Markoe — February 22, 2017
(RNS) It began to go bad very quickly, when first lady Melania Trump read the Lord's Prayer to the crowd.
Let the first lady pray! (COMMENTARY)
By Greg Laurie — February 22, 2017
(RNS) This past weekend, Melania Trump walked up to the presidential podium, thanked the crowd and, with her husband by her side, said something I can’t remember any first lady or president doing in recent memory: the Lord's Prayer.
No dice required: A medieval prayer wheel surfaces, but how it was used is anyone’s guess
By David Van Biema — April 30, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) If much of life in the High Middle Ages seems foreign to us, the wheel -- along with four others like it that have survived to the present -- is a real riddle.
N.T. Wright asks: Have we gotten heaven all wrong?
By John Murawski — May 16, 2012
(RNS) Christian apologist N.T. Wright's insistence that Christianity has got it all wrong seems to mark a turning point for the serious rethinking of heaven. He's not another academic iconoclast debunking Christian myths, but rather takes his creeds very seriously. By John Murawski.
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