The children pray the Rosary while kneeling, often before a statue of our Blessed Mother and before the Blessed Sacrament, and they take turns leading a decade of the Rosary.

While these customs changed slightly after Vatican II, the double kneeling before the Eucharist remains a Catholic custom, as it is among Anglicans and some Lutherans.

Here's how to understand the rosary, a Catholic prayer tradition practiced by millions of faithful worldwide — including the beads, the link to Mother Mary and the meaning behind the prayer aid.

My grandmother’s rosary was of amethyst-colored beads and a small silver crucifix, gray-black with tarnish. She kept it on the bureau in her bedroom near a holy card of St. Jude and a talcum ...

A Buddhist monk was kneeling in prayer at the altar of a North Carolina temple when he was shot and killed by an apparent stray bullet fired through a wall, police said.

A garden kneeling pad allows you to stay outside longer by providing cushioning while you work.

Kneeling while praying in church is no longer common but recently a group of Anglican bishops in Britain has been championing a kneeling renaissance.

Daniel Turek, left, and Noah Mullins are two Detroit-area students studying at Grand Valley State University who design and sell Kingdom Kneelers, foam kneeling pads for prayer. Mullins came up ...

The rosary has often been invoked to convert hearts and influence social change. In the mid-1900s, Catholics around the world began to pray the rosary for the fall of communism in Russia and Europe.

Girl grazed by bullet while praying, in southwest Harris County. A teen is recovering after deputies say she was shot in the arm while praying in her southwest Harris County home.

I do not have time to go to the church’s rosary for peace in Ukraine, but I go anyway. I have to do something, even though I feel like my small gesture will amount to nothing.