Understanding the Faith
Guide
Clearly explained: prayers, devotional items and the Catholic faith from a traditional Catholic perspective.
GebetPrayers for the Dead: Catholic Prayers with Text and Source
The traditional prayers of the Church for her dead, in Latin and English: from the Requiem aeternam and the De profundis to...
GlaubenswissenIndulgences: what they are and how to gain them
A remission of temporal punishment, not a forgiveness of sins: what the Church teaches about indulgences, how to gain them, how they...
GlaubenswissenPurgatory and the Holy Souls: What the Church Teaches
A place of purification, not of damnation: what the Church teaches about purgatory and the Holy Souls, and how the faithful can...
KirchenjahrAll Souls' Day: Meaning, Customs and Indulgence on 2 November
On 2 November the Church prays for all the faithful departed. What All Souls' Day means, where it comes from and which...
KirchenjahrAll Saints’ Day: Meaning and History of the Feast on 1 November
On 1 November the Church honours all the Saints, the known and the unknown. What All Saints’ Day means, where the feast...
GlaubenswissenMemento Mori: Meaning, Origin and the Four Last Things
Two words on a cardinal’s ring: what memento mori means, where the saying comes from, how the Church pronounces it on Ash...
KirchenjahrChrist the King: the feast on the last Sunday of October and the Kingship of Christ
On 25 October 2026 the traditional calendar celebrates the Feast of Christ the King. How Pius XI founded the feast in 1925,...
AnleitungHow to Pray the Rosary: A Guide with All the Prayers
The Rosary in its traditional form with 15 mysteries: with the prayer companion you go bead by bead through every prayer, from...