Anyone who is sincerely looking for God and seeking spiritual help is looking for a blessing. No one who asks for a blessing is morally perfect. Indeed, as we know after all the clergy scandals of ...

An excellent hair braider, she gives coupons, for example, offering to braid a friend's hair at no cost. This takes several hours, depending on the style, and could cost as much as $200 in a salon.

For water-stressed Gaza, the rains were indeed a blessing. Farmers would welcome ... Abu Al Saoud’s shop is no more. There are no cosy gatherings and sweet chatter, no sahleb, no TV.

In response to new Vatican guidelines permitting nonliturgical pastoral blessings of homosexual couples, the bishops of Africa issued a united statement in which they said there will be “no ...

Priests are asked for blessings frequently, and generally, no inquiry is made about the person asking. Goodwill is assumed and, in any case, no union is being blessed. Why then the clamoring and ...

On oceans that surround continents, the blessing ‘she’asah et ha’yam ha’gadol’ (He Who made the great sea) is recited. There are no blessings on an artificial lake, since it was created ...

There is to be no blessing of a new home unless those who will live in it are present. A minister who is a priest or deacon greets those present in the following or other suitable words ...

In keeping with the Vatican’s admonition that such a blessing should not be performed with “any clothing, gestures, or words that are proper to a wedding,” Father Martin wore no robes ...

the bishops of Africa issued a united statement in which they said there will be “no blessing for homosexual couples in the African churches.” The letter, issued Jan. 11, was written by ...