Some attempts were made to harmonize the rosary with the liturgy. These adaptations usually involved a simplification of the rosary. In a significant book on the renewal of Marian devotion, Msgr.

including “The Rosary in a Year Prayer Guide,” a free parish kit and a package of 50 “How to Pray a Better Rosary” booklets. Ascension also offers rosaries inspired by the Franciscan Friars of the ...

The love for the rosary, she said, has continued throughout the generations of her family. Before the service, Rev. Willy Raymond, who recently wrote a book entitled “The Family that Prays ...

3. In the fourteenth century the rosary also has the meaning of florilegium, a collection of pious thoughts or little poems about Mary. The stanzas (varying in number, 50, 150...) rhymed with Ave and ...

Fun Family Activity: Make your own rosaries. Kits are available from Holy Cross Family Ministries by calling 800-299-PRAY or at www.hcfmstore.org ...

Hero? Rogue? Maybe it’s both. But Catholic politician James Michael Curley, known as the ‘Mayor of the Poor,’ remains a ...

To mark the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the image of Our Lady of the Rosary in Pompeii on Nov. 13, Pope Francis has encouraged Catholics to contemplate the life of Christ ...

For the Young family in rural Sunbury, Ohio, activism begins at home. The conservative Catholic family chooses to live their ...

Nick Cave on the keys, Johnny Depp on the altar and Bono on the intercom as Tipperary gave Shane MacGowan the mother and ...

CHESTERLAND, Ohio — The pond was Julianne Smith's sanctuary—a place of quiet reflection, where she would often sit with her ...

The Archdiocese of Baltimore has pulled up anchor at Greenmount Avenue and 22nd street after 151 years. The last Mass at the ...

"We can't banish evil," writes Nicole Avant in her searing, uplifting memoir. "We have to learn to swim through trauma and ...