The lights dim, the crowd quiets. A choir boy carrying a candle slowly weaves through the hall at St. Anne parish in Gilbert, ...

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 ...

Even many of the less-than-devout know what it means to throw a Hail Mary. The oldest title for Mary is precisely “mother of God,” or Theotokos in the original Greek. It was chosen after ...

GENAZZANO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary ... title for Mary is precisely “mother of God,” or Theotokos in the original Greek.

Genazzano: Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary ... The oldest title for Mary is precisely “mother of God,” or Theotokos in the original Greek.