If we realized all the benefits (both temporal and eternal) we get from praying the daily Rosary, we would not think twice about starting the practice right away in answer to our Blessed Mother’s ...

The feast of Our Lady of the Rosary was actually instituted under another name: In 1571 Pope Pius V instituted “Our Lady of Victory” as an annual feast in thanksgiving for Mary’s patronage in the ...

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 ...

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 of the world was ...

One of the crazy aspects of being a priest is that people expect you to know all the things. “Is that a venial or a mortal sin?” (Shoot, are we still doing that?) “Who was Gregory the Great?” (Um, ...

HOLY ROSARY, the second Roman Catholic parish for ITALIANS in Cleveland, began on 5 Jan. 1892. Because of the distance between ST. ANTHONY'S CHURCH downtown (the closest Italian parish) and the ...

The rosary is the oldest and most popular of all private Catholic devotions, and one that has been strongly promoted by the church since the 15th century. The origin of bead circlets used to aid in ...