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

351 A.D. "There is One Physician who is possessed of both flesh and spirit....both of Mary and of God." St. Ignatius of Antioch, "Epistle To The Ephesians," c. 105 A.D. "[Jesus] became man by the ...

Readers of the Gospel might expect this much. What one might not expect, however, is how these prayers affected Jesus’ mother. Mary is hardly passive in this Temple scene. Simeon has a prophetic ...

In the plan of salvation, the Blessed Virgin Mary holds a special place ... Because she is our mother.” The Virgin, through Jesus, has brought heaven closer to us and her life is the best ...

Her latest book published by Word on Fire is The Mary Pages: An Atheist’s Journey to the Mother of God. Although raised in an atheist household, as a child she saw images of the Blessed Virgin ...

For over 200 years, villagers in southern Poland have paid homage to a roadside shrine depicting Jesus and the Virgin ... the 1820 shrine has left the Blessed Mother looking like a 'Simpsons ...

The coming-of-age tale retells the world-famous Biblical story through the eyes of Mary, mother of Jesus. "Directed by D.J. Caruso (Disturbia) and written by Timothy Michael Hayes, this uplifting ...

Aside from a TV movie starring Christian Bale called Mary, the Mother of Jesus, which looks into both her pregnancy and her relationship with Jesus up to his death on the cross, a film that looks ...

On May 31, we celebrate the second joyful mystery, which is the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin, ...

The inner mystery of God is the mystery of a family, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Our prayer life is shaped by this central mystery of our faith, as we pray to the Father, in the Son, and by the ...