DETROIT – Madonna is on Jennifer Zablocki’s iPod. So is “The Madonna.” The Detroit-area 12th-grade teacher works up a sweat to the pop diva’s music as well as songs honoring Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Twenty years ago, St. John Paul II published the apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae, adding five Luminous Mysteries to the traditional 15 meditated on in the rosary. The Luminous Mysteries ...

The first time I remember praying the rosary of my own volition was in fourth grade during the History Bee. It was my first academic competition, but far from my last, and I made it to the final round ...

“If properly revitalized, the Rosary is an aid and certainly not a hindrance to ecumenism!” ~ Pope St. John Paul II Remember Tertio millennio adveniente? No worries if you don’t. Not many lay ...

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him . . . and lo, a voice from heaven, saying, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased" (Mt 3: 13, 17). In Baptism, ...