Experts weigh in on Pope Francis’ recent support for changing the wording “lead us not into temptation.” The church has a long history of fiddling with the Lord’s Prayer and debating the right wording ...

“Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.” The words are as poetic as they are powerful. Billions throughout the world have known and recited the humbling yet peace-giving entreaties of the ...

Shame on all of them. The pope didn’t call for any changes. This is a classic case of the pope saying something and the media going hog-wild and completely distorting it. Italian television aired an ...

Why do you pray the Lord’s Prayer? The prayer that the earliest Christians called the Abba prayer, that my Christian siblings in the Catholic Church call the Our Father, that Protestant Christians ...

D.G. Hart’s review of Mark A. Noll’s book “America’s Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911” (Bookshelf, April 27) reminds me of a related religious practice prevalent in ...

Pope Francis, showing once again his willingness to turn over liturgical tables, is expected to approve a change in the translation of the Lord’s Prayer, the famous biblical petition recited by ...

It’s been a while since we’ve had a proper theological discussion on the Los Angeles Times’ letters page. Of course, the form — between 100 and 200 words per entry and with the focus on a single point ...

Unexpectedly during a group meditation, I heard the "Our Father" prayer in original Aramaic, and it resonated in my body like a deep, physical blessing. I wondered, is this is how it sounded from ...