(The Conversation) — It’s one of the most famous moments in modern Catholicism: the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. The Virgin Mary allegedly appeared to three Portuguese children in 1917, when much ...

Scores of Catholics and other practicing Christians pray the rosary all year long — and many bestow gifts of rosaries on family and friends for Christmas and other special occasions. What is the ...

“You know what Our Lady said about the Rosary? That the whole world would change if everybody said it. … If my Mother says, ‘Say it,’ I’m gonna say it,” Mother Angelica once shared. The new year, ...

The month of October is dedicated to the Most Holy Rosary. But today, on the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, we remember the victory at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Pope Pius V urged all Catholics ...

Every Christian is called to be a person of prayer. The battle of prayer is real, especially in a secular age that dismisses transcendence, the supernatural, and things beyond what we can control and ...

In both Orthodoxy and Catholicism, today -- August 15 -- is the feast of the transition of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, into eternal life. Catholics call it the Assumption, because they believe ...

(RNS) — Long a staple of Catholic life, the rosary is back in the spotlight with the election of Joe Biden, who will become America's second Catholic president. (RNS) — After a series of health crises ...

The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis' Office for the Mission of Catholic Education has asked people to pray the rosary at 10 a.m. CT Sept. 5 for those affected by the Aug. 27 shooting at ...