Opening prayer – to be prayed before each day’s special prayer Be blessed, O most pure Virgin, for having vouchsafed to manifest your shining with life, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of ...

In recent months, the American episcopate has shown more unanimity than in the past in its defense of migrants. However, ...

Last month, residents breathed a collective sigh of relief when the majority of the City Council voted down a change to Hutchinson’s decades-long practice of saying an opening prayer at the ...

Are the days of the opening prayer numbered? Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) president David Clark said most opening prayers have remained "pretty much unchanged" since council ...

The upcoming ceremony — which is also expected to include an opening prayer from Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York — will make Trump just the second president to serve nonconsecutive terms ...

One council has removed the prayer in response to a complaint claiming it breaches the state’s Human Rights and Responsibility Charter. “I have a problem with it,” Ms O’Brien told Sky News ...

Members of Christian faith organizations hold prayers in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building on the eve of arguments on President Obama's health care law. Four turnovers and a porous run ...

On the other hand, unlike the other people who prayed in a very partisan way, Dolan said a real prayer, rather than a campaign speech," Reese said. Dolan also led the opening prayer for Trump's 20 ...