From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch ...

They were anti-Catholic ... description of the Rosary as “three times 50 Ave Marias under the title of the Psalter of the Blessed Virgin, counting their prayers on the beads of a chaplet which ...

In early January, Catholic news outlets released a reminder that Catholics are eligible for special indulgences this year. Indulgences are pardons believed to eliminate earthly suffering or time ...

and crusades were part of Catholic life. The rosary was a part of the message at Fatima and Lourdes, apparitions which figured prominently in those decades. Bishop Fulton Sheen explained to television ...

In the fourteenth century the rosary also has the meaning of florilegium ... not least thanks to the confraternities of the rosary (since 1475). The Rosary Beads The physical "rosary" is not a ...

Pope Francis during the opening of the Holy Door in Saint Peter Basilica on the 24th of December (Photo: Catholic Art/Dreamstime ... A faithful in Saint Peter’s Square, holding a holy rosary from ...

ASCENSION’S latest podcast, The Rosary in a Year, topped the Apple Podcast charts ... This is Ascension’s third podcast to reach the No. 1 spot on the Apple charts. The Catholic publisher and digital ...

Cassie Woodruff believes she accidentally, or divinely, found “a little piece of heaven” in Carver. “How can you not come here and feel relaxed, or inspired, or at peace? It’s just ...