The Church prays for the dead, and this prayer says much about the reality of the Church itself. It says that the Church continues to live in the hope of eternal life.Prayer for the dead is almost ...

On November 2, the Catholic Church commemorates the faithful departed. Praying for the dead is an ancient tradition, asking ...

Father David Rivera speaks during a Mass held for All Souls’ Day at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Hammonton, November ...

In the recent Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae , the Holy Father John Paul II once more urged Christian families to pray ... Catholic Church , n. 171). This is also what praying the ...

This is one of the most important promises of our Catholic faith: The dead have not ceased to exist. If we can believe in God ...

In a pointedly absurd moment in the novel, Augie March tells of a blind beggar he saw in a Naples seafood market toward the ...

The joyful mysteries of the rosary ... dead, but we have all experienced the helplessness of birth and infanthood, when we are utterly reliant on the care and kindness of others. When I pray ...

As part of commemorating the faithful departed on All Souls’ Day, Nov. 2 — traditionally known in countries like Mexico as ...

Tis better to buy a small bouquet and give to your friend this very day, than a bushel of roses white and red to lay on his coffin after he's dead.” “Do not resent growing old. Many are denied ...

So this is a fitting time to consider Our Lady as “Queen of All Saints” (because that is what she is and we hope to be) and ...

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 ...

“And it’s a sacred day in which a lot of people pray ... but can include standard Catholic rituals — including attending Mass and praying for the dead with rosary beads — and folk customs ...