More than 840,000 people from 140 countries joined in praying the Rosary Oct. 18 to ask for peace and unity throughout the world. The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) organized ...

Participants in the novena are asked to recite the novena prayer on the 30th of each month but are also welcome to pray the novena more frequently and to pray five decades of the rosary along with the ...

The author's Rosaries. (Courtesy of James Martin, S.J.) About 15 years ago, I was invited, along with two Jesuit friends, on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. Our hosts were members of the Order of Malta. I ...

Learning how to pray the rosary can bless and benefit your life, even if you're not Catholic — or not that religious at all. How does that work? If you’re anything like me and about 26 percent of ...

God is always speaking to us. One reason we worry, feel fear and experience disjointedness and confusion is that we don’t realize that the answers to our questions and the balm for our suffering are ...

In many of the Marian Apparitions all over the world, the Blessed Virgin Mary often emphasized the importance of praying the rosary. On May 13, 1917, in the village of Fatima, Portugal, the Blessed ...

Devotion to Mary has always been a part of the Black Catholic experience, according to Stacy Williams, director of the ...

The Middle East may come to mind when you hear the term “persecuted Christians,” but India is a persecution hotspot, too.

A coalition of Catholic organizations held prayer vigils across the country on Oct. 22 for what organizers called "a national ...

I received my first rosary when my second grade class at a Catholic school in Baltimore received the sacrament of the first Holy Communion. The boys were given black rosaries and a prayer book, the ...