On July 16, 1251, the Virgin Mary appeared to Carmelite priest St. Simon Stock and presented him with a brown scapular.

Catholic nuns ran an institution there between 1925 and 1961, housing women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and ...

The full excavation of a mass grave of babies and young children at Tuam in County Galway is due to begin later on Monday. The exhumations will be carried out at the site of an institution for ...

In the 35 years between their deaths, another 794 babies and young children are known to have died there - and it is believed ...

I write regarding the May 18 article “Why popes and other Catholics pray to the Virgin Mary.” The Associated Press article in the Maine Sunday Telegram, about the Virgin Mary, gave a good ...

The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful.

Since the 19th century, May has been devoted to the Virgin Mary — though already in Greek and Roman times, goddesses of fertility were celebrated in this month of springtime blooming, she added.

A statue of the Virgin Mary was filmed weeping two days before the Pope’s death, it’s been claimed. Footage, filmed at a church service in Columbia on Good Friday, shows the statue with tears ...

Construction is underway on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland, set to be the tallest of its kind. The statue will stand on a 5 ...

Construction has begun on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland. It’s believed that the project, once it is finished, will be the tallest religious structure of its kind ...