In a prerecorded message, Pope Francis thanked those gathered for the rosary prayer service in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday night. “I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your prayers ...

“With this, you pray the prayer to the Madonna,” explained Sister Daura Guede, a nun from Brazil, as she completed her rosary ...

Repetitive prayer is a common thread across many faiths. For Catholics, the rosary involves reciting the "Our Father" once and the "Hail Mary" 10 times, repeated five times over. Each "decade" of ...