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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In recent years, we’ve witnessed a growing interest in monuments of our past. Whether it’s traditional prayer practices or different liturgical expressions, many Catholics are laying claim to their ...

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 ...

In the heart of every person, there is a desire to be in union with God. Such a union is realized and deepened by a life of prayer. Such a summons to prayer is as necessary and essential to human ...

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 ...

On the feast day of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, June 25, hundreds of men took part in the first-ever Men’s Rosary in Mexico City, loudly proclaiming “Long live Christ the King!” The men first ...

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

Catholics are being urged by the country’s bishops to pray the rosary with them Oct. 7 at 3 p.m. on the Facebook page or YouTube channel of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops. The event ...

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 ...

As the feast day of St. Dominic de Guzman is celebrated Tuesday, Aug. 8, members of the Dominican order and thousands of Catholic laity are continuing a nine-month novena before heading to Washington, ...