Challenge today is to extricate the historical, fully human Mary from theological baggage heaped upon her over centuries ...

At a May moleben in New Jersey, the faithful honored the Blessed Mother and heard a moving testimony from Archbishop Borys ...

105 A.D. "[Jesus] became man by the Virgin so that the course which ... His advent by the spotless and God-bearing (theotokos) Mary in the way of birth and growth, and the manner of His life ...

COMMENTARY: The canonization centennial of two influential French priests illustrates new light from the marvelous feast of ...

Pope Leo XIV, when he was bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, offered a special prayer of consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary ... Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

His daily conversation with the Virgin Mary has begun ... an angel came to him in a dream and told him not to. The birth of Jesus is mentioned in just two Gospels, Luke and Matthew.

To the point that, "at the end, Jesus ... the Blessed Virgin Mary. Receiving your Word in her Immaculate Heart, she was found worthy to conceive him in her virgin’s womb and, giving birth ...

It calls upon the witness of real historical figures — not only Jesus, but also his mother, Mary, and even the ... Now the poor are blessed, as are the hungry and persecuted (Luke 6:20–22); and now ...

Finally, this awesome, ineffable ability of God to generate, transform and preserve believers in Christ is indeed second to ...

Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general ...

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 of Our Mother of Good ...

That’s just three of a myriad Virgin Marys ... and traditions about Mary and why praying to her means so much to so many. According to the Gospel, Mary is the mother of Jesus — and the mystery ...