The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful. Pope Leo XIV closed the first ...

One Mary, a myriad titles According to the Gospel, Mary is the mother of Jesus — and the mystery of the incarnation of the ...

On his first papal trip, Pope Leo XIV went to the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good Counsel in the medieval village of ...

Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, was a Jesuit who took the name of the founder of the Franciscans. The Jesuit order is widely ...

In his first public blessing as pope, Leo XIV concluded with a "Hail Mary," after commemorating the feast of Our Lady of Pompei. His first papal journey took him to the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good ...

The beautiful Glendalough was the site of the renowned early medieval monastic settlement ... Our Lady’s Island, Co Wexford Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Our Lady’s Island stands on the ...

Pope Leo XIV's recent public blessing and visit to Marian sites highlight the central role of Virgin Mary veneration in ...

Elina Gertsman calls the exhibit “small, but mighty.” Some items are so intricate and ornate they require viewing through a magnifying glass to capture detail. But make no mistake, the impact of ...

A joint program co-curated by Case Western Reserve University distinguished professor of humanities and medieval art history Elina Gertsman and CMA’s curator of medieval art Gerhard Lutz, ...

There, she prayed on her knees before a painting of the Virgin Mary, beseeching God for the grace to enter the Carmelite ...

Our Blessed Lady has come to me; she has smiled at me,’ Thérèse marveled, as we mark the centenary of her canonization.

Approximately 470,000 pilgrims gathered in Fátima, Portugal, on May 12–13 to commemorate the 108th anniversary of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The prevalent theme of the two-day ...