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 ...

“Up to the week before she died, she was still making rosaries for Uganda,” Father Rob Jack said of his great-aunt, Betty McGuire, who died two years ago at the age of 94 in Middletown, Ohio. “That’s ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA — In a collection of rosaries that numbers 860, the prayer beads that started it all look like supporting players amid the headliners. There are the shimmering (with garnet beads from ...

Outside St. Anne’s Catholic Church at 1813 S. Maryland Parkway, a group of women gathered to sell baked goods and crafts for a cause dear to their hearts, the rosary. Groups dedicated to crafting ...

The transition from Lent to Eastertide can be jarring. In just a week, the church marks Jesus' acclaim on Palm Sunday, agony on Holy Thursday, death on Good Friday, and resurrection on Easter Sunday.

The Rosary is a centuries-old way of praying. "Medieval piety in the West developed the prayer of the Rosary as a popular substitute for the Liturgy of the Hours." Although obviously Marian in ...

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 ...