Many Catholic parishes will give their parishioners a piece of chalk, a small bottle of holy water, and the words for the ...

The solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary recalls the privilege according to which the Mother of God was preserved from all sin, including original sin, from the very first ...

Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...

The next day, Sunday, May 18, Archbishop Roncalli blessed a crown added to the Madonna of Lavasina painting, an object of deep local devotion. Tens of thousands of Corsicans gathered, and the nunc ...

With these words, St. Augustine emphasizes the greatness of Mary as mother of the eternal Son of God, and the infinite ...

Mary Kenneth Keller, a member of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was the first woman in the United States ...

Mary, the mother of Jesus, is unquestionably the senior saint within the Christian tradition. Yet we know remarkably little ...

The 1982 film 'Himala,' directed by National Artist Ismael Bernal, follows the story of a barrio Cupang lass, Elsa, played by ...

The experience of the newborn Jesus occurred within the storied walls of the Marian basilica’s Chapel of the Nativity, where ...

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on November 21st, commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in ...

“We can sharpen our vision of the present with cultural knowledge and memory,” Galanin says. “These works embody cultural memory and practice, reflecting persistence, sacrifice, violence, refusal, ...