rituals and prayers of Catholic funeral ceremonies are still embedded in the common memory and generally people have retained ...

The man who built a small school football program on Montgomery Road into a national high school powerhouse by the mid-1970s ...

The handling of beads in times of prayer is an old and widespread tradition, the passing of beads between fingers to count and help with concentration. The Rosary fulfills this tradition within ...

Joseph Hazboun, CNEWA’s regional director in Jerusalem, described expanding difficulties for the Christian Arab community on ...

In Mexico, families typically visit the graves of their loved ones to clean them, light candles, and bring food, drinks, and ...

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 ...

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

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

Read about Mexican Day of the Dead traditions, how they're celebrated in Costa Rica, and learn to make authentic pan de ...

Being raised in Gulod has afforded me a front-row seat to some barrio customs about death. What seemed morbid and fearsome to ...

Through his decadeslong tenure at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker, where many have passed away inside the home, Jeff Dietrich has learned more about death than he ever imagined. One of the most ...

Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, celebrated on Nov. 1 and 2, draws on pre-Hispanic Mexican and Spanish Roman Catholic traditions intended to facilitate the return of departed souls to the Earth ...