On All Souls Day — any day, in fact — we can help our Mother of Mercy for souls in purgatory — relatives, friends, the abandoned and forgotten. Pray to our Blessed Mother to help and comfort ...

The Catholic religion also emphasized commercial activity in relation to All Saints and All Souls Day. According to 16th- and 17th-century Catholic belief, the majority of souls landed in ...

All Souls’ Day is a catalyst for frequent remembrance throughout the year of the holy souls in purgatory. May we never forget these, our brothers and sisters. Msgr. Mangan, who previously served on ...

My thought goes out to the possibility of life on the other side. Perhaps the possibility of a utopia awaits those who are tied in the hospital. But for a Filipino, the hospital is a real and living ...

All Souls’ Day is most of all a reminder that death is not the end. As Christians, we believe in eternal life and our earthly death is just the beginning of our eternal journey.

All Souls’ Day is most of all a reminder that death is not the end. As Christians, we believe in eternal life and our earthly death is just the beginning of our eternal journey.

Purgatory was a brilliantly logical—if not the only possible—reconciliation of several separate, disjointed passages of the Old and New Testaments, powered by the application of newly ...

However, the souls in purgatory are no less part of the one body of Christ and remain connected to us. We used to speak of this as the “church militant,” meaning those of us still “fighting the good ...