I wonder if Jesus’s devout human parents took note of the similarities. Any mother who has ever faced financial difficulty knows something of the pain Mary, a homeless refugee, felt on [the] jou ...

Lauded in the world’s two largest religions as the mother of God’s Chosen One—for Muslims a great prophet and for Christians ...

Long a fixture on devotional medals worn by Catholics, Mary is so central to Catholic spirituality that Pope Francis earlier this year had to debunk the notion that Jesus’ mother would be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fitting but accidental. While the Church associates a variety of themes with Jan. 1 in addition to the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God — Jesus’ circumcision and “World Day of Peace ...

The director of the Biblical epic "Mary," coming to Netflix this Christmas season, says he hopes audiences will feel "closer" to the famous mother of Jesus after watching his retelling of the ...

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 ...

It is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, but we also recognize the Octave of Christmas, the Circumcision of the Lord and the Holy Name of Jesus. Perhaps we can use the second reading by St ...

During a break on a recent TV shoot, a co-star asked Amy Brenneman about her latest stage role: Miriam of Nazareth, best known as the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus. In response, the actor — who ...

that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them in Portugal. Residents of Montecristi say the survival of the centuries-old Our Mother of Monserrate, even as the basilica cracked and crumbled around it ...

Mary's exalted status was to reach newer heights when God chose her to be the mother of Jesus. The interaction between Mary and Angel Gabriel is given in a most moving manner in the Qur'an as ...