The feast of Divine Mercy is celebrated on the Second Sunday of Easter and is associated with the prayer of the Divine Mercy Chaplet, a pious practice revealed to the Polish St. Maria Faustina ...

The final spiritual work of mercy is surprisingly simple and accessible to all: “pray for the living and the dead.” However, at the same time it is very easy to forget in a culture where we are taught ...

On Sunday, April 23, the Catholic Church celebrated Divine Mercy Sunday. In 1931, our Lord appeared to a nun named Faustina. She said she saw our Lord clothed in a white garment, one hand raised in a ...

The core of Christian prayer is humility. Such humility is displayed when hearts acknowledge their sins, call upon the name of the Lord, and seek his mercy. It is his mercy that opens the door to ...

Catholics observe the back-to-back feasts of All Saints and All Souls Nov. 1 and Nov. 2. (Credit: Tyler Orsburn/CNS.) Earlier the same day, Cruz, a Catholic mortician, tried to comfort an acquaintance ...

Last summer brought my circle of friends and family to our knees. Most every place we found ourselves became a prayer closet. At one point, a massive, summer wildfire bore down on Holden Village, a ...

Rather than abandon prayer in the face of tragedy, Judaism asks us to deepen it. We do not pray to overturn nature but to find strength within the divine natural order. Many patients and families ...

Is there any group in the American Catholic church that has done so much while receiving so little appreciation than Catholic sisters? No. Women religious helped to build our church, teach our ...