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 ...
Among the many titles under which Catholics invoke Mary, Pope Francis has asked them to add "Mother of Mercy," "Mother of Hope" and "Comfort of Migrants." Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship ...
The Virgin Mary is sitting with her son Jesus in a lush Alberta forest, surrounded by deer drinking from a gurgling stream, with the majestic Three Sisters peaks in the background. "The window cries out ...
With a religious sister who survived COVID-19 and a woman who lost her mother to the coronavirus, Pope Francis led the recitation of rosary and asked Mary to intercede to save the world from the ...
Pope Francis will lead the major shrines around the world in praying the rosary to implore Mary's intercession and protection amid the coronavirus pandemic. The pope will pray at the replica of the Lourdes Grotto ...
A reader asks if an exorcism must be performed prior to a consecration, such as the recent U.S. consecration of the nation by the bishops to Mary. Monsignor Charles Pope explains that there are no ...
Bishops throughout the United States reconsecrated the country to Mary as the nation continues to struggle in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Bishops in Canada also used May 1 to rededicate their country to ...
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