It was a 2002 visit to a Colorado monastery that introduced Elizabeth Collier to the Liturgy of the Hours, a daily cycle of prayers and psalms that is required reading for many monks and priests. At ...

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 ...

Our recent celebration of Easter reminds us that Jesus is risen indeed. This is the central truth of Christianity. Each of the four Gospels accounts of the Resurrection story is unique, yet all four ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the No. 1 question I hear from families and converts to the Catholic faith, and Kendra Tierney’s Catholic All Year website has been my go-to resource since 2013. Over 20 centuries, Catholics ...

A few weeks ago, a reader of the Young Voices blog commented: "I would be interested in hearing about the favorite Catholic devotions of your young readers. The Rosary? Divine Mercy? Eucharistic ...

Popular Catholic devotions once filled churches and were always part of one’s faith life in the course of the week. People prayed the Rosary regularly, attended novenas, did consecrations to 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, ...

There have been spades of media reports this Lent about other Christian denominations in the United States taking on and adapting traditionally Catholic devotions and Lenten practices: as a young ...