I introduce the holy souls in a welcoming way through friendship with the elderly couple at the parish. Purgatory is described in ways that put a smile on children’s faces — parents, too ...

Help Holy Souls in Purgatory With a Double Plenary Indulgence This Jubilee 2025 The Jubilee Vatican decree lists the corporal and spiritual works and presents many ways to put them into practice.

The Novena of the Chaplet to the Divine Mercy begins on Good Friday and lasts for nine days. The contributors of this novena ...

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.

St. Louis, Mo., Sep 10, 2022 / 06:00 am The Catholic Church’s teaching on purgatory — the “cleansing fire” that prepares the elect for heaven — can be difficult to understand.

Upon arrival in purgatory, Virgil and Dante are met by the gatekeeper, Cato of Utica, the stern Roman statesman known for his strict pagan morality.

A family prays next to a relative's grave in a cemetery during All Souls' Day in Khartoum, Sudan, in this Nov. 11, 2014, file photo. (CNS photo/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah, Reuters) ...