Recently I realized I was eavesdropping on a prayer, the first in the Bible. I hadn’t noticed I was witnessing humankind’s earliest recorded reply to God. It’s Adam, knocked-kneed in his reticence, ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Most race day Sundays for the past 13 years, the Rev. Max Helton has stood at the side of Dale Earnhardt's black No. 3 Chevy and led a prayer. Sunday's Daytona 500 was no exception -- ...

In Catholicism, the last prayers and ministrations given to an individual before death are known as last rites. The Rev. Alex Gamino of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Indio has administered the ...

Among the countless stories of survival and death that have emerged in the wake of the Joplin, Mo., tornado, one has particularly fascinated me. It is the report of the priest at St. Mary’s Catholic ...