Of the lengthening of litanies, there is no end. For the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, the Holy See’s Congregation for Divine Worship added seven new invocations to the Litany of St. Joseph. Given ...

A statue of St. Joseph is seen as Pope Francis leads his general audience at the Vatican March 24, 2021. With the approval of the pope, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments has ...

[Editor’s Note: Leonard J. DeLorenzo, Ph.D., is director of strategic planning, the Sullivan Family Saints Initiative, and undergraduate studies in the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the ...

LAFLIN — If you listened as they knelt and prayed the Litany of St. Joseph earlier this week, you’d learn many reasons why the people attending a novena admire the biblical carpenter, long revered as ...

Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Jesus, hear us; Jesus, graciously hear us. God the Father of heaven, have mercy on us. God the Son, Redeemer of the world, ...