One plenary indulgence — remission of all temporal punishment due to sin — per day is a tremendous gift of the Church, but two in one day is an enormously rare exception granted for this Holy Jubilee ...

It's mid-November. Have you prayed for the Church Suffering yet? Sure, All Souls' Day was back on the second. But the Church dedicates this whole month to the holy souls in purgatory — and urges us to ...

Is it possible for a single prayer to save a thousand souls from Purgatory? It sounds out of this world, and yet, for centuries, devout Catholics have believed in the spiritual strength of a prayer ...

October leaves flash gold and red, blowing over streams and roads. The cold November rain transforms the foliage into a damp carpet on sidewalks and forest floors. Our attention turns to hot soup, ...