Pope Leo XIV's recent public blessing and visit to Marian sites highlight the central role of Virgin Mary veneration in ...

Mary, perfect in every way, serves as a remarkable inspiration to women in every age. She’s the ultimate model of holy womanhood, humility, and generosity, and I see her reflection most clearly in the ...

a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?" St. Augustine of Hippo, "Sermon 186," c. 411 A.D. "Having excepted the holy Virgin Mary ...

Explain how and why fetal personhood became the holy grail. Mary Ziegler ... was no longer more support for pregnant people, or even more support for babies, or more programs to minimize infant ...

There’s something awry in my head that zigs when everybody else zags. I can’t explain it and can’t stop it. I’m weird.

Sister Stevenson entered the community from Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Greece. She earned her associate’s degree in dental ...

Traditional Judaism believes in Geihinom or Gehenna. Really bad sinners go there after death for up to 12 months to become ...

The power of creation is shared not with angels, but with mothers. Our current age frequently gives short shrift to the value ...

Years ago, when I was helping a girlfriend prepare a special meal for her fiancé and future in-laws, we planned an elegant ...

Just past a bodega and a mosque, I noticed a sign for Holy Name Cemetery, the vast array of graves of Jersey City Irish, Polish and Italian immigrants who arrived in the late 1800s. This was Mary ...

Since Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, became the first American elected as pope, I've been racking my mind trying to find something semi-intelligent to write about this momentous event.

“Dearest brothers and sisters, with deep sorrow, I must announce the death of our Holy Father Francis ... ‘Safety’ Can Be a Pretext to Harm Pregnant Women SPLINTEREurope Launches No-Brainer ...