Pope Pius XII in 1950 formally defined the dogma of the Assumption of Mary, which had been held by early Church Fathers. The ceiling of Santa Maria Immacolata a via Veneto in Rome depicts the ...

This year is the 170th anniversary of the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX in his encyclical Ineffabilis Deus (1854), which declared that the Virgin Mary, “from ...

Santa Maria Plena Gratia (Blessed Mary “full of grace,”) is not, will not, and cannot, in Roman Catholic belief, be God. The Roman correspondent of The Chicago Tribune caused a tumult of confusion on ...

Many rosary devotees may ponder the grace of a happy death — one of my favorite reflections is the fourth glorious mystery — the Assumption of Mary. Just a couple of weeks ago we celebrated that ...

This invocation affirms that “we not only have a mother in Heaven, we also have a Queen Mother.” The Feast of the Queenship of Mary of the Catholic Church is celebrated on the Octave Day of the ...

GENAZZANO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On his first papal trip, he went to the Sanctuary ...