Credit: Vatican Media “The disciples were gathered around Mary, the mother of Jesus,” the pope said, reflecting on 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 ...

The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman Catholicism in recent ...

After the founder of the Army of Mary declared herself the reincarnation of the mother of Christ, the Vatican excommunicated ...

The Vatican would never approve an alleged ... “Everyone has to visit their mother.” For centuries Mary—Our Lady of Guadalupe—has been Mexico’s patron saint, feted on December 12.

“I prefer the Madonna as mother ... Another similar case prompted the Vatican in 2007 to excommunicate the members of a Quebec-based group, the Army of Mary, after its founder claimed to ...

All Europe had joined with the Emperor crying out "Mary, Help!" and praying the Holy rosary. In 1809, Napoleon's men entered the Vatican ... Help of Christians, the mother church of his ...

It stresses thus the radical novelty of the Incarnation and Mary's no less radical and exclusive dedication to her mission as mother of her Son, Jesus Christ. Vatican II reiterated the teaching ...

COMMENTARY: Definitions of synodality have finally been offered in the synod’s final report, including everything and leaving ...

The U.S. Catholic bishops voted Nov. 12 at their fall meeting to support the local advancement of the sainthood causes of two ...

(Vatican Media) Elections, such as the recent contest between ... the Council of Ephesus and specifically its endorsement of ...

Alarmed by the growing number of children, the Vatican decided ... to his birth family. Mary Relotto, another adoptee impacted by the program, reunited with her birth mother, Anna Maria, in ...