Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed ... to gain fame or riches from contact with the Virgin Mary is ignored or condemned. Medjugorje is one of some two dozen sites in ...

A national shrine was designated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2016, making it the only national shrine in the United States with an approved Marian apparition.

May (and October) have traditionally been dedicated to the blessed virgin Mary. On May 13, the church honors Our Lady ... Fatima and Mexico City every year. Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, while not ...

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on November 21st, commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in ...

Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, then president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, led a "Renewal of the ...

But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel announced to her the glad tidings that the Spirit of the Lord would come upon her and the power of the Most High would overshadow ...

We celebrate by remembering tales of apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Ireland. May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary are a series of Marian devotions held in the Catholic Church throughout the ...

Each May, the Church honors the Blessed Mother. The words of our most recent popes about Our Lady also relate to their focus ...

Intertwined within the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the acknowledgement of her as the “Mystical Rose,” for she is the ...

Francis is not the only pope to rest there. Seven others are buried on the grounds, most notably St. Pius V, who established ...

On April 29, to commemorate the event, the cathedral’s archpriest, Joseph Sultana, led a sung concelebrated mass during which he delivered a homily on the glories of the Blessed Virgin ...

A BBC documentary suggesting that the Virgin Mary was raped by a Roman soldier has provoked a deluge of complaints and been censured by the Vatican. More than 500 viewers called to protest about ...