The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

This family dimension of prayer and Christian worship ... and life of faith" ( Catechism of the Catholic Church , n. 171). This is also what praying the Rosary does.

In many Catholic families, there is a pious custom of reciting daily one part of the Rosary ... each of them with a prayer for the fruits specific to that particular mystery.

Catholics from across Michigan have shared prayers in response to the announcement that Pope Francis has died.

Rosary beads close rosaryA string of beads used as a method of prayer ... Catholic Christians. are an aid to worship that focus on a set order of prayers. The Annunciation. Fruit of the Mystery ...

This was the intention with which the new "Rosary Group" was formed on the first Sunday of Lent in the parish of Huangzhou, part of the diocese of Wenzhou, in the coastal Chinese province of Zhejiang.

Amid Pope Francis's hospitalisation in Rome, a global outpouring of prayer has converged ... praying the rosary, a ...