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Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns ...

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In many Catholic families ... scripture passage before moving on to vocal prayer. Then proceed to the recitation of the decade. On the large bead say the Our Father. On each of the ten small ...

Pope Leo XIII, who served from 1878 to 1903, led the church into the modern world, emphasizing its moral authority beyond ...

Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago, grew up in south suburban Dolton, and attended the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago in ...

Pope Leo XIV has used his first ever prayer address to call for the end to the war in regions including Ukraine, Gaza and the Indian/Pakistan border.

Picture: AFP At midday Sunday (8pm AEST) the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church ... flags and holding rosary beads, as they waited for him to give his short prayer. Some had waited hours ...

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These events are called mysteries of the Rosary. The string of beads on which these prayers are said is also called a Rosary. The ordinary beads are of five decades, or one-third of the whole Rosary.