"The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the Heart of Jesus . . . which ... meets with no other return from most Christians than sacrilege, contempt, indifference and ingratitude, even ...

Yet he did just that in this unscripted moment. Bannon made no reference to Jesus or the Gospels, but the phrase “pray for our enemies” combines the two halves of Matthew 5:44: “Love your enemies and ...

Jesus taught, “When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men … but when you pray, go into your room ...

In painfully clear language, Jesus tells us the following in this reading from Matthew: “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words ...