O Mother of our Divine Lord, as we conclude this novena for the special favor we seek at this time. (State your intention) We feel animated with confidence that your prayers in our behalf will be ...

Furthermore, one day of the week is set aside for prayers for the dead -Saturday, on which it is customary to have a service for the dead, unless it coincides with a feast, if such is to be served on ...

Rene Bunsoy, 58, has never prayed for the dead in his nearly three decades of being a pastor. Although it seemed out of the ...

The Bishops’ Committee for Religious Freedom, an office of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), is encouraging ...

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 ...

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

Catherine Wolfe Donohue’s heroic perseverance, flowing from her deep Catholic faith, stands as a timeless example of strength ...

In the Catholic Church, November 2 is the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, or All Souls' Day, a day to a day to commemorate and pray for the souls of those in Purgatory, those ...

A priest whose body was found on a beach in East Lothian has been remembered during mass at his parish church. Father Martin Xavier Vazhachira had served at St John The Baptist Roman Catholic ...

Photo: Shen Hong/Xinhua via ZUMA Press/AFP via Getty Images During weekly Shabbat services at my synagogue, we recite a prayer for the well-being of the United States and for the leaders who ...

The child and parent must meet certain eligibility criteria. A child with a deceased parent can receive 75% of the parent’s benefit. Social Security can be a financial lifeline for a family ...

The Forte nameplate is dead more than the idea of the Forte itself. This is because Kia’s compact sedan is recast as the K4 for its 2025 redesign, a change that better aligns it with the K5 mid ...