The Basilica Shrine hosts its Solemn Novena Nov. 17–25, culminating with the Solemnity Mass of Our Lady on Nov. 26.

A novena, a Catholic devotion recited on nine successive days for the granting of a special wish, was invoked by the dignitaries of the Catholic Church in their effort to bring about the speedy ...

The March for Life, one of the largest annual human rights demonstrations, is taking place today, Friday, Jan. 19, in Washington, D.C. While it’s too early to know just how many people came to the ...

Cardinal Raymond Burke this week invited Catholics to join in praying a nine-month novena seeking Mary’s intercession beginning on March 12 and culminating on the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe on ...

Cardinal Raymond Burke announced a new nine-month novena to pray for the Church and for the intercession of the Virgin Mary as the world grapples with the "forces of sin." "How can we best begin to ...

The Archdiocese of Przemyśl has published a novena — nine consecutive days of prayer — beginning Sept. 1 and concluding on the vigil of the beatification Sept. 10. Members of the Ulma family at their ...

On Dec. 16, we are just nine days until Christmas! The Church’s liturgy begins today to make a shift: the first part of Advent is far more eschatological, focusing on Jesus’ Second Coming and our need ...

Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount at the beginning of the novena of Mary, Aug. 30, 2024. (Credit: Father Sunder M. Albuquerque.) Listen MUMBAI, India – As the Church approaches the Feast of the ...

Parishioners at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Vancouver, Wash., pray the rosary in their virtual cemetery. (CNS photo/Courtesy St. John the Evangelist Parish via Northwest Catholic.) Listen ...

Mother Eliswa Vakayil, Kerala's first nun, was declared Blessed 112 years posthumously in a grand ceremony attended by ...

Mother Eliswa Vakayil, the first nun of the Kerala Catholic Church, will be declared 'Blessed' at a ceremony at Vallarpadam Basilica. The announcement will be made by Cardinal Sebastian Francis, and ...