With the visit of Pope Francis to the United States days before October’s month of the Holy Rosary, it is an apt time to reflect on why Marian devotion, including the Rosary, is vital to Catholic ...

Sister Albert Marie recently worked with another member of her community, Maria Veritas Marks, O.P., to write and compile the Manual for Marian Devotion published by TAN Books on December 21. On ...

MANILA (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos joined an annual procession in the Philippine capital to kiss or touch a centuries-old black wooden statue of Jesus Christ, believed to have ...

Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada paints a portrait of Williamsburg tradition and devotion that predates $30 brunches. Lifeblood of the Parish is a detailed ethnographic account of Italian American Catholicism ...

Among the Twelve Promises which Our Lord revealed in the 1670s to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the French nun who was instrumental in promoting devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was this final one ...

(AP) – Like the star of an arena tour, a spotlight illuminated the glittering, golden vessel carried by a Catholic bishop. Inside, it held a round communion host, which Catholics believe is the full ...

Thousands of dancers and musicians took to the streets Saturday for the annual Oruro Carnival, one of Latin America’s largest ...

Archbishop Jose Ulises Macias Salcedo of Hermosillo said this week the devotion to “Saint Death” does not protect those who “pray” to him from anything and that those who believe in it are “badly ...

Elevation of the consecrated host at Mass depicted in a stained-glass window at St. Anthony's Church in North Beach, Md. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) What is the Eucharist? Who may and may not receive the ...

Since 2001, Sacred Heart Church and Catholic School of Palm Desert has raised more than $19 million to benefit church charities and in-need Coachella Valley residents. Saturday, Feb. 12, saw the ...