Articles on this issue "mary"
Benedict XVI placed the Church in the maternal hands of Our Lady of Guadalupe, during a visit to venerate her image in the Vatican Gardens, reported L'Osservatore Romano. The semi-official …
read moreBefore dying, John Paul II sent a letter to the religious of the Shrine of Jasna Gora, in Czestochowa, and gave two gold crowns as a gift for the icon of the Black Madonna. "I entrust our …
read moreWhen asked about an image of the Blessed Virgin that allegedly wept tears of blood, Bishop Girolamo Grillo recalls a famous line from Scripture. "A tree is known by its fruits," says the …
read moreThe Marian Shrine of Velankanni, devastated by last month's tsunami, will host an interreligious meeting to be led by the president of India's episcopal conference. Some 1,500 people in …
read moreThe Trappist community of Our Lady of Joy on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, has a new Chinese abbot, Father Anastasius Li. Last Saturday the abbot received the solemn blessing from Bishop Joseph …
read moreA modern international center of art, spirituality and theological reflection is to be built in the Holy Land and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Auxiliary Bishop Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo of …
read moreJohn Paul II invited the members of the Fraternity of the Sons and Daughters of the Cross to love the Virgin Mary as their "most gentle Mother." The members of the new Church entity had an …
read moreJohn Paul II recalled "with emotion" his Aug. 14-15 trip to the Shrine of Lourdes, when he greeted a group of pilgrims from the diocese of the French landmark. In an audience Saturday the Pope …
read moreA centuries-old image of the Blessed Virgin still has a place in the hearts and minds of modern people -- be they Catholic or not. So says Charlotte Allen, author of "The Human Christ: The …
read moreCuban bishops are evangelizing their nation with comic strips on the life of Father Félix Varela and on the Virgin of Charity of Cobre, patroness of the island. Father Varela (1788-1853), one …
read moreThe Holy See issued this biography of Joseph-Marie Cassant (1878-1903), a French Trappist monk and priest, whom John Paul II will beatify on Sunday. * * * Joseph-Marie Cassant was born on …
read moreWhen patients attribute their seemingly miraculous cures to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dr. Patrick Theillier steps in. Theillier has the task of examining such claims of …
read moreHere is a translation of the greeting John Paul II addressed to the sick on Saturday, when he arrived at the Grotto of Massabielle in Lourdes, after drinking water from the spring which was …
read moreInternet makes it possible to participate spiritually in John Paul II's pastoral visit to Lourdes on Aug. 14-15, and deposit a prayer in the grotto of the French shrine. Father Thierry …
read moreLourdes, a small town in the Pyrenees, is preparing for a big visit. John Paul II is scheduled to arrive Aug. 14-15 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the dogma of the Immaculate …
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