The Catholic Church has appropriated May for the devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Thus, every Catholic Church celebrates ...

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 Our Mother of Good ...

On the one hand, they were very critical of what they considered Marian excesses, and they talked at length about some of the ways in which Mary was given too much veneration, too much almost ...

Pope Leo XIV blesses the faithful inside the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome, Sunday, May 25, 2025, after a ...

In fact, according to the Catechism, Catholics are to give Mary special veneration, but not worship her — something reserved for God alone, Falanga said. It’s that relatability as a mother ...