Several years ago I read the book, Heaven is for Real. The book chronicles Colton Burpo’s purported near-death experience at the age of 4 during an emergency appendectomy surgery. Whatever the truth ...

Each Jan. 17, the Church celebrates Mary under the title Our Lady of Hope, one of the oldest Marian devotions, with a link to France. Given my love of Mother Mary and my favorite Scripture is Jeremiah ...

Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” Find today’s readings here. Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patroness of the Americas ...

The cloak worn by St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin was made from rough cactus materials from central Mexico and it should have deteriorated after 15 to 30 years. But this “tilma” remains intact and its ...

A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. Find today’s readings here. Revisiting the story of Our Lady of ...

Hundreds of Catholics from across the Chicago area gathered Wednesday to see the Pilgrim Mother, a life-size statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The holy sculpture, which was blessed at the Basilica of ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV, when he was bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, offered a special prayer of consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary before the pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fátima, whose feast day the Catholic ...