Caption - Pope Francis pauses in prayer in front of a statue of Mary after celebrating Mass in Steppe Arena in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Sept. 3, 2023. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) The National ...

By John Oven Guest Column One century ago, on Dec. 10, 1925, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Venerable Sister ...Read More ...

The consultant emphasized that the pontifical document is a doctrinal note that “deepens, clarifies, and states that these terms are not appropriate, they are not opportune, simply because Mary ...

Marian devotions have been an evolving part of Catholic Church history, spirituality and the faith of countless Catholics worldwide. Popular Marian veneration is expressed in simple acts that include ...

When John Henry Newman converted to the Catholic faith from Anglicanism in the 19th century, it shook the English world. As the country’s most prominent and influential religious preacher, leaving the ...

At a May moleben in New Jersey, the faithful honored the Blessed Mother and heard a moving testimony from Archbishop Borys Gudziak on vocation, war and the election of a new pope. Faithful gather at ...

St. Carlo Acutis was quite familiar with Our Lady of Fatima’s requests. “A few days after the death of Sister Lucia in 2005, Carlo dreamed of her. She told him that the practice of the five first ...

One reads the prize-winning author Rachel Cusk for perspectives rather than plots. Her recent novels do not even flesh out her characters. It is as if she were telling parables; too much detail would ...

MEXICO CITY -- It is one of the world's most visited and beloved religious venues -- the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, with a circular, tent-shaped roof visible from miles away and a sacred ...

In his History of the Reformation in Scotland, John Knox described an incident from his early life as a Protestant. Having been delivered from "the puddle of papistry," as he called it, he was taken ...

President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on Monday encouraged Filipinos to let truth, humility, and compassion guide their actions, in his message on the occasion of the Feast of the Immaculate ...