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All Souls Day

Detail from “Vision of the Throne of the Lord (The Paris Apocalypse),” French miniaturist unknown, active c. 1400. (Wikimedia Commons)

Sunday Readings

Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed: All Souls

Scott Hahn|Oct 31, 2025|2 Min Read

A couple prays before a prayer altar set up for Dia de los Muertos at Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles in an undated photo. (Victor Alemán)

Faith

Praying for dead loved ones in November comes with a special perk

Mike Aquilina|Oct 30, 2025|3 Min Read

Pope Francis pauses to pray after leaving white roses at the section of Rome's Laurentino cemetery set aside for miscarried infants on the feast of All Souls, Nov. 2, 2024. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

On All Souls, pope prays at graves of children, miscarried infants

Cindy Wooden|Nov 2, 2024|2 Min Read

“St. Jerome,” by Caravaggio, 1571-1610, Italian. (Wikimedia Commons)

Faith

If the saints overcame the fear of death, why can’t we?

Mike Aquilina|Oct 31, 2024|5 Min Read

Judgment Day fresco inside the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy. (Shutterstock)

Remembering the importance of All Souls' Day

Russell Shaw|Oct 21, 2024|3 Min Read

A Scout lights candles on All Saints’ Day Nov. 1, 2019, during a tribute for departed soldiers at a cemetery in Taguig, Philippines. (CNS/Eloisa Lopez, Reuters)

Weekend timing to affect All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day Masses this year

Angelus Staff|Oct 16, 2024|2 Min Read

Pope Francis holds a bouquet of white roses as he visits the graves of members of Commonwealth military units who died during and immediately after World War II and now rest in the Rome War Cemetery where the pope celebrated Mass Nov. 2, 2023, the feast of All Souls. (CNS/Vatican Media)

All Souls’ Day: Pope prays for 'peace' at Mass in war cemetery

Hannah Brockhaus|Nov 2, 2023|3 Min Read

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, center, and other Catholic clergy from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El Paso take part in a binational Mass Nov. 5, 2022, in memory of migrants who died during their journey to the U.S. near the border between Mexico and the United States. (CNS photo/Gabriel Barraza, Reuters)

At border Mass above the Rio Grande, migrants who died are remembered

Rhina Guidos|Nov 7, 2022|5 Min Read

Pope Francis praying in St. Peter's Basilica on All Souls' Day, Nov. 2, 2022. (Vatican Media via CNA)

Pope Francis on All Souls’ Day: Do you desire heaven above everything else?

Courtney Mares|Nov 2, 2022|4 Min Read

The author's grandson at the gravesite of his great-grandparents. (Robert Brennan)

The circle of life and death

Robert Brennan|Nov 17, 2021|4 Min Read

Pope Francis places a white rose on a grave at the French Military Cemetery before celebrating Mass for the feast of All Souls at the cemetery in Rome Nov. 2, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Francis celebrates All Souls’ Day Mass at military cemetery in Rome

Courtney Mares|Nov 2, 2021|3 Min Read

Relatives pray at the tomb of a loved one in a public cemetery in Navotas city, north of Manila, Philippines, in this Nov. 1, 2011, file photo. With the continuing pandemic, the Vatican has again extended throughout all of November the opportunity to receive a plenary indulgence for visiting a cemetery to pray for the dead. (CNS photo/Romeo Ranoco, Reuters)

Vatican extends traditional All Souls' Day indulgences

Catholic News Service|Oct 28, 2021|2 Min Read

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