After decades, and controversy, the Vatican has authorized public worship at a shrine in Bosnia, where a once tranquil ...

Carmel, Fruitful Vine, Splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in my ... us who have recourse to thee (3x). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3x).

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

In June 1981, six children aged 10 to 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hilltop near the town.

Mary, perfect and holy, should be in a place of honor and veneration in our lives. But she also is our Mother, caring and ...

Pilgrims say their prayers next to the statue of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje (Armin Durgut/AP) It listed no example of any negative experiences associated with Medjugorje, or reference to ...

At La Salette, Our Lady warned of imminent crop failures as evidence that her ability to restrain God’s justice was growing ...

It is a title and function which St. Thomas made his own and integrated into his life of prayer and study. St. Thomas taught that the Blessed Virgin Mary "must be shown every honor, preached and ...

for songs and prayers. So many souls yearning to be witnesses for hope, so many souls imbued with the belief that the Virgin Mary was lighting their way. A young boy in the Deir al Adra monastery ...

One can say that the "litany" is an ancient component of Christian prayer, incorporated into the Divine Liturgy, the liturgy of the Daily Hours (collected in a Service Book called the Menaion), and in ...