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 ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nallely Bernal places a crown of flowers on a statue of Mary at St. Francis Xavier Parish in Lake Station, Ind., in May 2006. (CNS/Karen Callaway) Popular devotions have enjoyed a renaissance. Public ...

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 ...

Pope Francis greets a child as he visits the oncology department in the hospital that Padre Pio founded in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, during his pastoral visit to the places of St. Padre Pio, ...

Jansen (Station to Station), director of Image Books, calls readers to prayer in this well-argued book. He posits that human beings are plagued by a deep anxiety caused by terrorism, political ...

Philippine Catholic bishops congratulated the country’s first-ever Olympic gold medalist, weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz, not only for her victory but for her show of faith and devotion to the Blessed ...

S. Korean Marian shrine controversy highlights delicate balance between popular piety, episcopal authority in Catholic life ...

(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 ...