SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Catholic Conference and the Knights of Columbus in that state are inviting Catholics nationwide to join them in praying a Novena for Life to promote the sanctity of ...

The first novena ever prayed is the Pentecost Novena, or the Novena to the Holy Spirit. This year, it begins on Friday, May 19, and concludes on Saturday, May 27. Catholics worldwide often recite the ...

The U.S. bishops are calling on American Catholics to join them in praying a novena for the soul of the late Pope Benedict XVI, beginning the day of his funeral, Jan. 5. “The entire Church mourns the ...

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 ...

On the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children, the bishops suggest the faithful observe the day by ...

Since Thursday morning, about 250 people have knelt, morning and evening, inside and prayed for their hearts' desires. A sampling of petitions read aloud offers a glimpse into the suffering and hard ...

Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria, Ill., hands a copy of the “positio” on Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s life to Father James O’Brien, representing the late Cardinal Francis E. George and the Archdiocese ...