Understanding Unusual Religious Practices

I have been a Catholic all my life but there are beliefs and practices that are difficult to understand. For example, I recognize how people can be passionate in their veneration of the Black Nazarene but I don’t get why some of them believe that cutting portions of the rope that devotees hold on [...]

A Collection of Rosaries

Even if we need only one rosary in our life, we tend to collect a lot. It has become the favorite among catholic gifts. I just got another as a giveaway in a relative’s christening. It went into a box together with souvenirs from a wedding, a few I bought on the site of a [...]