(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 ...

You want to pray a Rosary for your family or our Blessed Mother’s intentions, so you reach into your pocket or purse — only to find your rosary’s not there. You know you have trouble concentrating if ...

In many of the Marian Apparitions all over the world, the Blessed Virgin Mary often emphasized the importance of praying the rosary. On May 13, 1917, in the village of Fatima, Portugal, the Blessed ...

Scores of Catholics and other practicing Christians pray the rosary all year long — and many bestow gifts of rosaries on family and friends for Christmas and other special occasions. What is the ...

Pope Francis blesses a rosary presented by a woman as he arrives to pray the rosary at the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love in Rome May 1. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) As the Vatican and the Catholic ...

The month of October is dedicated to the rosary, a Catholic prayer that Christians believe bestows "spiritual roses" upon the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, a priest told Fox News ...

The author's Rosaries. (Courtesy of James Martin, S.J.) About 15 years ago, I was invited, along with two Jesuit friends, on a pilgrimage to Lourdes. Our hosts were members of the Order of Malta. I ...

On Dec. 8, the day the Church celebrates the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, thousands of women in different countries around the world gathered to pray the holy rosary for peace and for the ...

The Catholic Church has a new idea to promote religion in the age of smartphones: a $109 electronic rosary bracelet that guides users through traditional prayers. “Aimed at the peripheral frontiers of ...

Prayers filled a Park Ridge park for the 13th consecutive year Saturday as Catholics gathered to recite the rosary together. Rosary in the Park, organized by a local Knights of Columbus council, has ...

Over one million children in the Philippines prayed the rosary together for world peace and unity at an event organized by an international foundation founded by Dutch priest Werenfried van Straaten.