Yes, Jesus is descended from patriarchs and kings, but now magi from the East come to worship him. That is, through Jesus all ...

When I ponder the Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth I'm struck by how pedestrian it would look to anybody who was present at the time. We don't speak in capital letters of the Visitation of the Smiths ...

I first learned about the Seven Sorrows devotion through my obsession with art depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary. While I was used to the joyful image of the Mother and Child, I was mesmerized by its ...

On Monday evening of the Fourth Week of Lent, I attended a presentation on the First Holy Triduum given by one of the Immaculate Heart of Mary sisters in our diocese. Three IHM sisters from California ...

Christian flower symbolism, with origins in the Wisdom and Prophetic books of the Bible, was applied to Mary by the Church Fathers, as an extension of Isaiah's prophecy of the Virgin Mother of the ...

But there is an equally venerable tradition that the Church begins here, at the foot of the Cross. When Jesus commends his mother Mary, and his beloved disciple John, to one another’s care – behold ...

% of adults who say their holy scripture is the word of God and should be taken literally who meditate… Share Save Image Sample sizes and margins of error vary from ...

As he does each day - wearing a sport coat and tie - the ramrod-straight, six-foot-one-and-a-half Ken Wichorek stepped out of his tiny white Geo Metro on a mid-January morning and headed straight for ...