No doubt, these are trying times. Our country is straining at the seams. Sides are split. Rancor is running high. Parties are poles apart. Foreign wars seem intent on dragging the United States closer ...

Novena for Pentecost: Join Dan Schutte in a virtual novena for Pentecost. The most powerful message we preach to the world is in the way we treat each other, especially at times like this when we are ...

On Dec. 16, we are just nine days until Christmas! The Church’s liturgy begins today to make a shift: the first part of Advent is far more eschatological, focusing on Jesus’ Second Coming and our need ...

The latest hardware project from [Bunnie] is the Novena, a truly open source laptop where nearly every part has non-NDA’d datasheets. This is the ideal laptop for hardware hacking – it has an FPGA ...

Some Christmas traditions are pretty standard in mainstream American culture: put up the tree, string up the lights. Hide the Elf on the Shelf, visit grandma, bake the cookies. Then there's the one my ...

Cardinal Raymond Burke announced a new nine-month novena to pray for the Church and for the intercession of the Virgin Mary as the world grapples with the "forces of sin." "How can we best begin to ...

I remember my first time attending a novena of prayers for the dead drawn from traditions of rural Mexico. The sense of community was palpable. Night after night, patio chairs were set up under ...

The sunlight glistened across St. Ann’s Monastery as people gathered to pray, light candles, and sing the gospel. St. Ann’s Monastery Basilica Parish is celebrating their 101st Anniversary of St.

Editor's note: NCR is sharing with our readers a nine-day Novena for Pentecost resource created by board member and composer Dan Schutte. Schutte writes, "if there's ever a moment when we all could ...

When your 5-year-old laptop dies it’s usually time for a replacement. But [Andrew Menadue]’s Novena laptop is fully open-source. He has full access to all the documentation, so he decided to try his ...