GENAZZANO, Italy (AP) — 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 lights dim, the crowd quiets. A choir boy carrying a candle slowly weaves through the hall at St. Anne parish in Gilbert, ...

MANILA, Philippines — A new Filipino version of the “Hail Mary” prayer has been approved by ... more faithful and accurate rendition of the original Latin text. “It’s more contextualized ...

MANILA, Philippines — A new Filipino version of the "Hail Mary" prayer has been approved by ... but to offer a more accurate rendering of the original Latin. “[It’s] more contextualized ...

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.