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 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is encouraging Catholics across America to pray a novena for life, justice, and peace called “Novena for Faithful Citizenship” before the ...

St. Anselm R.C. Church has a traditional day of praying the St. Anthony Novena every Tuesday after the 11 a.m. Mass. St. Anthony, a Franciscan Religious, is noted for helping the poor, and Brother ...

Erin Roche and Steve Passmore of Stanfordville, N.Y., drive tractors on Sisters Hill Farm in this 2010 file photo. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, a virtual novena for farmers, farmworkers and ...

The feast of Pentecost falls May 23 this year, and the Eternal Word Global Catholic Network has made available an e-book about the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the Novena to the Holy Spirit set to ...

An initiative of prayer and religious formation under the aegis of St. Joan of Arc has just been initiated in France, with the aim of making it recover its original vocation as the “Eldest Daughter of ...

The novena to Our Lady of Good Counsel, which will take place in the month of Mary, begins May 1 and runs until May 9. Cardinal Raymond Burke bows his head in prayer during the Summorum Pontificum ...

A group of U.S. bishops, including two cardinals, will lead a nine-day Lenten prayer service for migrants and refugees in an online series sponsored by the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. The ...

Editor's note: NCR is sharing with our readers a nine-day Novena for Pentecost resource created by board member and composer Dan Schutte. Schutte writes, "if there's ever a moment when we all could ...

Thompson Temple Church of God in Christ will hold its 65th annual Church Convention at the church, 1515 Whitney Ave., Gretna. The program Oct. 14 begins at 7:30 p.m. On Oct. 15 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., ...

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 ...