Marian apparitionsCatholics believe Mary is the mother ... statue has a supernatural cause. Mary’s tears have special significance for Catholics. She is often pictured as crying over the sins ...

The explicit pro-abortion message is meant to equate Mary’s choice to be the mother of God with a mother’s ... That theme can be seen over the centuries: St. Augustine of Hippo, for instance ...

In the niche that is part of the altarpiece above the altar, an image of the Virgin Mary can be seen ... commented that “one discovers, over time, that the Mother of God is not democratic.

No genre gesture goes untapped in the deliberately hagiographic “Mary,” a coming-of-age saga about the mother ... and appears to be dysregulating as he tries to upstage and upend God’s ...

Aside from a TV movie starring Christian Bale called Mary, the Mother ... God to bless him and his wife with a child. In this version of events, the angel Gabriel (Dudley O’Shaughnessy) appears ...

Since the Roman Calendar Reform of 1969, the Church observes Jan. 1 as the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. This is not, however, an observance pulled out of whole cloth. Honoring Mary as the ...

Carved from dark wood, the statue is an icon of Saint Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ ... a caretaker of the icon. “It’s God’s plan that the statue is still surviving.” ...

Most people know that the Virgin Mary is very popular among Catholic and Orthodox Christians. But what they usually don't know is that the Mother of God ... over people. A 17th-century Japanese ...

What is our connection to the dedication of a building that took place in Italy over 1,500 years ago? The history of this church is rooted in the role of Mary as the Mother of God. Its story ...

GENAZZANO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On his first papal trip, he went to the ...