Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

What do we really know about the power of prayer to help people when they are ... her face turned to the wall. She was Catholic, and one day, I noticed that a priest had started visiting her.

Lent is the time before Easter ... time to prayer or perhaps his family. As always, when considering acts of penance that are stricter than the norm, it is important that the Catholic would ...

October has hardly tinged our poetry.” He still thinks it’s made ... But just as one cannot reach Easter but through Good Friday, neither can one attain to “the glorious freedom of the ...

It honors martyrs and saints — those who were hallowed, or deemed holy — a tradition begun by the Roman Catholic church in ...

With questions for personal and group reflection, readers are led to explore how personal faith engages with real life. All a ...

This Novena can be made at any time, but be made at the beginning of Good Friday in preparation for the Feast of His Mercy, which should be celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter. He told her ...

In the morning Chaplains of the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church and Non-Conformist churches ... The hymn "O God our help in ages past" was sung by the congregation and after prayers there ...

Tom Raby penned his first Christmas poem and launched a December tradition that would delight readers of The Catholic Register until 2004 ... the birth of Christ with wonder and awe, faith and prayer, ...

To love and forgive my fellow Catholics and Catholic leaders who like Judas fell in league with those who betrayed Jesus and ...