I first learned about the Seven Sorrows devotion through my obsession with art depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary. While I was used to the joyful image of the Mother and Child, I was mesmerized by its ...

Six weeks after my conjoined infant twin girls died, I went to Confession, and told the priest I was sorry for being angry with God. To this day, I am still not even sure who the priest was, but what ...

The Catholic devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows is nearly 1,000 years old. Our Lady of Sorrows at the Church of the Holy Cross in Salamanca. (photo: Zarateman via Wikimedia / (CC BY-SA 4.0)) As an ...

Mary and St. John stand at the foot of cross in this depiction of Christ’s crucifixion at Holy Family Church in Ramallah, West Bank. (Credit: Debbie Hill/CNS.) Listen ROME — On the Friday before Holy ...

Pope Francis will travel to the Catholic-majority country of Slovakia on Sept. 12-15, stopping at four different locations. One of these is Šaštín, one of Slovakia’s youngest towns, where there is an ...

The titular feast of Our Lady of Sorrows was celebrated on Monday with solemnity in Codialbail Chapel of Bishop's House, generally known as Irmiz in the Catholic history of Mangalore. "The sorrows of ...

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 the Friday before Holy Week, Pope Francis asked people to keep a long tradition of Catholic piety by focusing on "the suffering and sorrows of Our Lady." "Honor Our Lady and say, 'This is my mother ...