Two masterpieces, centuries apart, reflect a theological insight centuries old: Mary was given not only to John, but to the ...

COMMENTARY: Today’s feast is directly linked to the jubilee years of 1975 and 2000, making its observance this jubilee year a ...

that Mary did indeed have a choice to assent to God’s will and become the “Theotokos,” the mother of God. Mark Miravalle, who holds the St. John Paul II Chair of Mariology at Franciscan ...

Netflix's new movie "Mary" tells the story of the life of the woman who would eventually become known as the Theotokos, the Blessed Mother ... entirely inhabited by God, there is no room within ...

Pope Francis reads his homily during the Mass for the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, Jan. 1, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen On the first ...

No genre gesture goes untapped in the deliberately hagiographic “Mary,” a coming-of-age saga about the mother of Jesus ... he tries to upstage and upend God’s promise.