In both Orthodoxy and Catholicism, today -- August 15 -- is the feast of the transition of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, into eternal life. Catholics call it the Assumption, because they believe ...

Think of it as a Fitbit for your spiritual health. One hundred and sixty years before the advent of social media, the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network existed as a network of millions of Catholics from ...

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Gloria Renaldo keeps a long strand of brown beads in her pants pocket. Affixed to the bottom of the loop is a cross. This is not a cross she wears, but rather a rosary that she keeps with her to help ...

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 of the world was ...

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I received my first rosary when my second grade class at a Catholic school in Baltimore received the sacrament of the first Holy Communion. The boys were given black rosaries and a prayer book, the ...