Generally speaking, the use of sacramentals is one of the most misunderstood practices in the Catholic Church. They have been a part of the Church’s life from the very beginning, but are commonly ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

For many people, it is difficult to understand why millions of devotees spend long hours risking their lives and limbs participating in the annual rituals associated with the Feast of the Black ...

The biannual US Catholic bishops’ meeting received more than its usual attention this June due to one particular item on its agenda: a proposed document on the Sacrament of the Eucharist, a ritual ...

Want to ward off nightmares or strange occurrences at home? Go back to the basic sacramentals, like wearing a scapular or using holy water and exorcised oil and salt. A Rome-based theologian and ...

One of the country's leading exorcists reminded Catholic priests to perform the blessing of sacramentals, or religious objects, properly to avoid "demonic infestation." Father Michell Joe Zerrudo, ...