ROME, NOV 11 - A women who claimed the Virgin Mary appeared to her via a 'blood-weeping statue' at Trevignano Romano, a ...

It’s a good thing Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem and not Louisville. Had they come to Louisville looking for a place to stay on the night Mary went into labor and took refuge in an animal stall, ...

(RNS) — A new book, the fruit of 20 years of research, aims to unearth Mary’s real identity, which the author said has been lost amid centurieslong attempts to paint her as an ever-virgin, ...

GENAZZANO, Italy — 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 Sanctuary of ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. I write regarding the May 18 article “Why popes and other Catholics pray to ...

Construction has begun on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland. It's believed that the project, once it is finished, will be the tallest religious structure of its kind, according ...

Maricela Torres laid a bouquet of flowers before a life-size sculpture of the Virgin Mary and knelt to the ground at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines. “I pray to her almost every ...

A new book argues that the mother of Jesus was a powerhouse in her own right. Madonna and Child, c.1485 (oil on wood) by Giovanni Bellini, currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

(RNS) — She’s the subject of the most-recited prayer in the world, but also, Mary might be one of the least-known women in history, argues biblical scholar James D. Tabor in his latest book, “The Lost ...