We’re exhausted, over-stimulated, and over-emoted. It could be the let down from the seasonal celebrations of Thanksgiving, various religious holidays and the arrival of 2025. We’ve scurried about for ...

Gloria Renaldo keeps a long strand of brown beads in her pants pocket. Affixed to the bottom of the loop is a cross. This is not a cross she wears, but rather a rosary that she keeps with her to help ...

Several years ago a friend, knowing I worked in beads, asked me to create three sets of Episcopal prayer beads for a class she was teaching. Four billion people -- over half the world's population of ...

(The Conversation) — It’s one of the most famous moments in modern Catholicism: the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. The Virgin Mary allegedly appeared to three Portuguese children in 1917, when much ...

I received my first rosary when my second grade class at a Catholic school in Baltimore received the sacrament of the first Holy Communion. The boys were given black rosaries and a prayer book, the ...

Learning how to pray the rosary can bless and benefit your life, even if you're not Catholic — or not that religious at all. How does that work? If you’re anything like me and about 26 percent of ...