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

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 ...

'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 ...

My relationship with Mary, like that of many women, is complicated. Mary embodies some of my most deeply held values. As a young, poor woman from Galilee, she represents how God chose to enter into ...

In “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver,” Oliver offers a collection of almost all her best poems throughout the year. With poems dating back to 1963, it includes some of my all-time ...

Marian devotions have been an evolving part of Catholic Church history, spirituality and the faith of countless Catholics worldwide. Popular Marian veneration is expressed in simple acts that include ...

When Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., consecrated the school to the Blessed Mother on Sept. 8, 2013, now-new graduate Mary Minnis, the daughter of Benedictine President Stephen Minnis, asked ...

The Vatican has issued a new directive this week clarifying that Catholics should not refer to Mary as "co-redeemer" with Jesus, in response to a rising trend of intense Marian devotion amplified by ...

For more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver has been training her eye on the mysterious and mystical thrumming of the divine. She sets out on a hike through the woods and ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- American poet Mary Oliver died Jan. 17 at age 83. Her death caused a re-inspection and renewed appreciation of her work, and propelled her collection “Devotions,” originally published ...