(The Conversation) — 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 ...

The month of October is dedicated to the Most Holy Rosary. But today, on the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, we remember the victory at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Pope Pius V urged all Catholics ...

In a community room at the Holy Family School in Orange, at least 20 women gather each Tuesday, spreading colorful beads and strings among themselves to make rosaries that are later shared throughout ...

Praying the rosary is traditionally associated with the Catholic Church, but Protestant Christians sometimes use rosary beads for meditative prayers to God rather than Mary. Discover what the rosary ...

Meet the Lithuanian couple behind Theotokos Rosaries, whose designs aim to capture the essence of the great cathedrals of ...

The rosary is a standout “double” sacramental. The Catholic Church considers the chain of beads that make up the rosary a sacramental, and as a form of popular devotion, the chaplet we say also ...

Join Word On Fire Catholic Ministries in praying 50,000 Rosaries for Catholics to come home, especially for our loved ones who have left the Church. If you’re Catholic, almost certainly you have a ...

On a Wednesday night in late October 2022, I knelt in the small basement chapel at Williams College in Massachusetts, where I was a junior. Sweaty, shaky and beyond nervous, I began to pray the rosary ...

A rosary has been part of Mar A. García Sabaté’s Catholic and Latina identity since her elementary school days in San Juan, Puerto Rico. “Many of my family members and myself still use it as a way to ...

It is well established that the Holy Rosary has a few different origin stories. Some of them are downright off, contradictory, or really lazy attempt to fill in the history where we otherwise find ...