CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has approved an alternative Filipino version of the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer. The new version of the ‘Ave ...

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GENAZZANO, Italy — 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.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has released another Filipino version of the “Hail Mary” prayer, meant to be a more accurate translation of the original Latin prayer.