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 ...

Families share how teaching the Rosary to youngsters successfully leads also to families praying together. “The Holy Rosary, by age-old tradition, has shown itself particularly effective as a ...

Then I added a Marian “Call Your Mother” sticker, a dry reminder to pray the rosary, my favorite Catholic meditative prayer. That was it for a while. Then a strange thing started happening.

In a Lenten departure from my movie blogging beat, I’d like to share a development in my family’s prayer life that may be of interest to others. For years we have prayed a daily rosary ...

The Christians were greatly outnumbered, and so the pope called on all believers to pray the rosary for victory. And, against all odds, victory was given. The triumph was marked with a feast day ...

The rosary, a favorite devotional prayer of many Catholics throughout the world, goes back to the 13th century. It was in the 1500s that Pope Pius V designated the original 15 mysteries of the ...

Its popularity has increased over recent years, especially since Pope John Paul II called the Year of the Rosary in October 2003. The Pope has spoken often on the importance of praying the rosary ...

Sweaty, shaky and beyond nervous, I began to pray the rosary aloud in Spanish. As I gripped the freshly printed paper that contained the translated prayers I had typed out just a few hours earlier ...

But the rosary itself is not a form of idolatry. The rosary is not a prayer to Mary — it is a meditation on the life of Christ revealed in five mysteries “with the purposes of drawing the ...