VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has asked Catholics around the world to join him on Friday in consecrating all humanity, especially Russia and Ukraine, to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

A Catholic archbishop in Moscow has welcomed “with great joy and gratitude” Pope Francis’ decision to consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Speaking via telephone from a ...

Pope Francis has asked bishops around the world to join him March 25 in consecrating Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, something bishops in every part of the globe had started ...

Pope Francis announced Tuesday that he will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, fulfilling a 1917 vision purportedly revealed to Portuguese children that such a blessing ...

"Seek and you shall find." Through the centuries Christians seeking most fully to know, love and serve God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - have done so by consecrating their lives to Jesus through the ...

Pope John Paul II kneels in front of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima as he entrusts “all men and women and all peoples to the Immaculate Heart of Mary,” in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in this ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary during a penitential prayer service in St. Peter's Basilica March 25, the Vatican said. On the same day, ...

At the same time that Pope Francis consecrated Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Rome, Bishop James F. Checchio joined in prayer during mass at the Cathedral of St. Francis of ...

VENICE – The Most Rev. Frank J. Dewane, Bishop of the Diocese of Venice in Florida, will join Pope Francis in “a solemn Act of Consecration of humanity, and Russia and Ukraine in particular, to the ...