In western Turkey lies a stone house where it is said that Mary lived and where St. John the Apostle wrote his Gospel. Our Sunday Visitor contributing editor Russell Shaw reviews a new book by ...
Under the gaze of a seventh-century icon of Mary, Pope Francis launched a monthlong, global recitation of the rosary, pleading for Mary's intercession for the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. And he prayed May 1 that ...
Over the course of the pandemic, certain powerful moments of national and worldwide prayer stand out. A year ago in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Archbishop José H. Gomez reconsecrated the United States to Mary, ...
Pope Francis devoted his most recent general audience to prayer in communion with Mary. During his audience, the pope reminded us that Christian prayer is raised to God “through Christ, with Christ and in Christ” ...
Mary, the mother of God, has been present during the COVID-19 pandemic, and she was by the side of all those who died alone, Pope Francis said. "If someone is alone and abandoned, she is the ...
Since Christmastime, Gretchen Crowe has been singing “Silent Night” as a bedtime lullaby to her daughter. She writes: “The problem with a Christmas carol becoming the nightly favorite was that when the season transitioned, the ...
This week Monsignor Charles Pope answers a question about how Mary traveled 70 miles to Bethlehem while pregnant leading up to the Nativity. While tradition depicts Mary on a donkey, he explains that it is ...
While Abraham is often considered the father of faith, Joe Heschmeyer explores that there are a few cracks in Abraham’s faith. He writes: “What Abraham struggled with was the all-too-familiar temptation to follow God on ...
Mary's role in history has been as "a mother bearing a message of hope," from the first days of the church "when the mother of Jesus was at the center of the apostles' community in ...
When questioning the perpetual virginity of Mary, many critics point to passages of Scripture that name James the Apostles as Christ’s brother. There was no word in Hebrew of Aramaic for cousin, so the term ...
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