A Reflection for the Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary “The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth ...

No one has ever been better prepared for Christmas than the Blessed Mother. Despite the stress of needing to travel by donkey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, a four- to six-day journey over rough terrain ...

In the midday Marian prayer broadcast live from the library of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis invoked the intercession of the Immaculate Conception, who was proclaimed patroness of the ...

Pope Francis highlighted “the beauty of Mary’s heart” in his Angelus address on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. The pope said on Dec. 8 that the Blessed Virgin Mary’s encounter with the ...

On the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pope Francis venerated a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary located atop a tall column near Rome’s Spanish Steps. Pope Francis ...

My grade school (which I’ve mentioned in previous Scripture reflections) had an Advent/Christmas concert of sorts called the Service of Lights. It began with one student singing “O Come, O Come, ...

Filipinos should mark the feast day by looking to Mother Mary to intervene for victims of killings and forced disappearances A Marian procession of devotees dressed mostly in white parade around the ...

Our 5-year-old grandson, Clement, is in pre-K at his neighborhood Catholic school, which, apparently, qualifies him to explain Christian belief to his 2-year-old sister, Ruthie. He told her, "Ruthie, ...