Every year in March, tens of thousands of Americans take to the streets – and bars – to celebrate St. Patrick, the patron ...

Our immaculate Lady, sinless and spotless, is the model of femininity for every woman in the Christian life. Realistically, ...

FILE – Pilgrims wait their turn to enter the Basilica of Guadalupe, in Mexico City, Dec. 12, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country converge on Mexico’s holy Roman Catholic ...

'God wants to establish devotion to the Immaculate Heart in the world, because the world must recognize with utmost gratitude what this heart has done for it.' Pope Leo XIV celebrates Holy Mass in the ...

Mary is a model of the kind of openness to the Holy Spirit that all Christians should have, an openness that allowed her to say "yes" to God's plan for the salvation of the world, Pope Francis said.

VATICAN CITY, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Pope Francis has approved a Catholic spiritual devotion centred in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia that has been steeped in controversy over whether the Virgin Mary ...

A statue of Mary with a crown, and a painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe are pictured at Sacred Heart Church in Prescott, Ariz., May 5, 2025. The month of May is devoted to Mary and is traditionally ...

On Aug. 15, Catholics around the globe celebrate the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — the belief that Mary, the Mother of Jesus, was taken body and soul into heavenly glory. In ...

Next to papal infallibility, the biggest barrier to Catholic-Protestant unity is the humble Jewish girl who gave birth to Jesus of Nazareth. By popular piety and papal decree, Roman Catholics have ...