Pope Leo XIV this week blessed a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary known as the "Broken Mary," part of a project organized by ...

The Church celebrates Mary’s birthday on September 8th. This feast day is exactly nine months after the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 8th, marking nine months from conception to ...

Luke 11:27-28 (RSV) As he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!” [28] But he said, “Blessed rather are ...

“As you vigilantly school yourself in studying the psalms and in giving praise to God, I exhort you, venerable brother, and recommend that you also not omit the daily office of the blessed Mary ever ...

"Happy New Year!" If you're from Denver, you not only might repeat that greeting through the month, but also leave your Christmas lights on until Jan. 22, the last day of the National Western Stock ...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin celebrates the belief that at the end of her earthly life, Mary was "taken up body and soul into ...

One reads the prize-winning author Rachel Cusk for perspectives rather than plots. Her recent novels do not even flesh out her characters. It is as if she were telling parables; too much detail would ...

For the August 21 anniversary of the famed 1879 apparition of the Virgin Mary in Knock, Co. Mayo, up to 150,000 people from all over Ireland are making a pilgrimage to the site of the apparition for ...