When I think about God’s mercy, it’s the image of the Miraculous Medal that springs to my mind. It was through its intercession that I was able to fully recover my path to the Catholic faith as a ...

May will always be a special month, the month that the Church dedicates to the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God and our mother. The month that begins today is just the right time to renew the love ...

In 2023, it was a year of celebration for Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish, 418 W. 15th St. in Lorain. Operation Care Package prepares largest ‘Santa’s Helpers’ event yet Oberlin holiday ...

According to the Church's liturgical calendar, the feast held on Feb. 2 each year is in honor of the Presentation of the Lord.

St. Irenaeus said—we only have him in the Latin, not the original Greek—Gloria enim Dei vivens homo. “A living human being is the very glory of God.” No human being, at least not one who is only human ...

One reads the prize-winning author Rachel Cusk for perspectives rather than plots. Her recent novels do not even flesh out her characters. It is as if she were telling parables; too much detail would ...

The inner mystery of God is the mystery of a family, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Our prayer life is shaped by this central mystery of our faith, as we pray to the Father, in the Son, and by the ...

In his History of the Reformation in Scotland, John Knox described an incident from his early life as a Protestant. Having been delivered from "the puddle of papistry," as he called it, he was taken ...

Twenty-seven years ago today, a rainbow-tinged image of what appeared to be the Virgin Mary covered the side of a financial building in Clearwater, Florida. She showed up on Dec. 17, 1996, just days ...

Police believe the two statues and a wall plaque were damaged Tuesday night. At the Church of the Ascension School in Halethorpe, Father John Williamson found two statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary ...

Pierre Ferragu still remembers visiting Lourdes, where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Bernadette, as a child.