A pro-life novena invites the faithful to ask for the intercession of the Holy Innocents — the baby boys who are, today, recognized as the first martyrs and as pro-life patron saints. While they did ...

The bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church have asked people around the world to join them in an urgent, nine-day novena beginning March 17 to conclude on the Solemnity of the Annunciation on ...

The new pocket guide includes 20 novenas, 14 of which are newly written, an introduction to each novena, sacred art, and inspirational stories from Catholics who have had their prayers answered ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I grew up three blocks from St. Mary, Help of Christians Church in West Allis, Wis. At the time, the parish sponsored no school, so my sister and I were enrolled in the school of a neighboring parish.

“Acres of old maids” (as one priest puts it) have loved the novena—the Roman Catholic prayer service, usually offered once a week in the evening in honor of a saint or the Virgin Mary. Now the novena ...