Evidence for Believing

[Belacqua]

Right. But that doesn't mean you expect God or Santa Claus to hand it over.

Not long ago, the Pope said, "You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works." 

Kierkegaard, though not Catholic, would agree with this, as would many modern Christians. It doesn't involve supernatural presents.

So going by this, My lawn will cut itself but only after I've gone over it twice with my mower?

This statement baffles me, I will seek guidance from FSM in perhaps clarifying the popes and by proxy your confusing statement.

No, you have to cut the grass. 

The issue is whether prayer is a request for wish-granting sky-daddy to do it for you. The Pope's statement will seem baffling to people who assume that prayer is necessarily a request for wish-granting sky-daddy to give them something.