Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As painful as it is to see someone we love struggling, illness is an unfortunate and inevitable part of the human experience. That ...

Q: I have a job where I’m exposed to much sadness. I do everything I can to alleviate the darkness which surrounds so many of my patients and families, but often I feel helpless that I can’t do more, ...

Last week I wrote about Vickie, a parishioner who recently died of cancer. I talked about her journey to faith, and how that faith ultimately buoyed her and others during her illness. Something I didn ...

The book that the bishops are voting to create will be a compilation of those prayers, drawn from multiple sources traditionally used in ministry to the sick. Only priests are allowed to perform the ...

Father Andrew Menke, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Divine Worship, said that he hopes the potential new prayer book will be helpful for laypeople who want to minister to the ...

Psalm 41:3 says, "The Lord sustains them on their sickbed and restores them from their bed of illness." This Bible verse encapsulates what faith in God can provide in the toughest of times: comfort, ...