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

On September 12, Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, Vienna was finally freed through the intercession of Mary Help of Christians. All Europe had joined with the Emperor crying out "Mary, Help!" ...

The first day of June marks the centennial of Pierce v. Society of Sisters, a landmark civil liberties decision in which the US Supreme Court struck down an amendment to the Oregon constitution ...

The amendment, challenged by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, who ran parochial schools in Oregon, primarily targeted those schools and was notably backed by organizations such as ...

He warned against their gradual erasure--not only in their homelands ... that have driven many Eastern Christians from their homelands: "I think of Ukraine, the Holy Land, Lebanon, Syria, the Caucasus ...

As thousands of Chinese families take DNA tests, the results are upending what adoptees abroad thought they knew about their ...

Once in the community of Ellicottville, they also became enmeshed in the music ministry at Holy Name of Mary Church, where Annette became the organist and Jim the choir director. When Jim died in ...

The holy icon of the Panagia Soumela ... the icon is a work of the Apostle and Evangelist Luke. Etymologically, the name of the icon and the monastery derive from the name of the mountain, which is ...