Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Cardinal Robert Sarah as his special envoy for celebrations in France commemorating the 400th ...

St. Justin Martyr, "Dialogue with Trypho the Jew," c. 155 A.D. "Those Gnostics, therefore, who allege that He took nothing from the Virgin do greatly err.... For why did He come down into Mary if ...

The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful ...

Catholic pilgrims also visited the site each February to celebrate the anniversary of the Virgin Mary's apparition at Lourdes and in July for St. Anne's feast day. A report in the Highlander from ...

The event saw 7,000 pilgrims walking behind a beautifully decorated float bearing the statues of St Anne and her daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary.

GENAZZANO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary ... Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. That’s just three of a myriad Virgin Marys around ...