The "rosarium" or rosary indeed has pre-Christian origins. Ancient Rome celebrated the "rosalia," a spring festival commemorating the dead. In Greek tradition, the rose was Aphrodite's flower. It ...

At the end of his general audience, Francis also showed tourists and pilgrims in St Peter’s Square the rosary and camouflaged New Testament book that a 23-year-old Ukrainian soldier named ...

Visit the homepage for more information. Many of the popes have championed the Rosary as a powerful, multifaceted devotion. The theologian Romano Guardini described praying the rosary as ...

The Rosary is a centuries-old way of praying. "Medieval piety in the West developed the prayer of the Rosary as a popular substitute for the Liturgy of the Hours." Although obviously Marian in ...

In the recent Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae , the Holy Father John Paul II once more urged Christian families to pray in their home by reciting the Rosary: "We need to return to the ...

Holy Rosary Church’s survival is hanging by a thread and now a Catholic lay organization has proposed throwing it a lifeline. The group sent a proposal and purchase offer to the Seattle ...

THE funeral is to take place on Monday of the Irishman found dead in tragic circumstances in a police cell in Portugal. Ryan Chan, from Letterkenny in Co Donegal, was found dead in his cell on ...

One person is dead and Vancouver police say one man has been arrested after a pair of "serious incidents" in the downtown ...

Jon Carp of Save Tacoma’s Landmark Church (STLC) joined Seattle’s Morning News to share details about his group’s proposal to the Seattle Archdiocese to purchase and preserve Holy Rosary Church.

The last mass at Holy Rosary took place Sept. 1, and there are no plans for the local priest, Father Peter Golden, who is based in nearby Trepassey, to return to the church. The town hall was also ...

One person is dead and another had his hand severed in what police are calling two unprovoked stranger attacks in downtown ...