The 1969 Roman Calendar reform recovered Jan. 1 as the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. This is among the oldest feasts associated with the Octave Day of Christmas and reaffirms a basic truth that ...

Marian art shows that distractability is itself a form of attention, one that is essential to living a Christian life.

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Solemnities: Celebrating a Tapestry of Divine Beauty. Catholics see the world as a marriage of the spiritual and material, not a divorce of these two ...

Even as an old woman, my mother could still recite the New Year’s wish she had been taught as a small child to pronounce in German. It was a wish that greeted you at your door on New Year’s Day. You ...

"And he came to her and said, 'Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!'" This Bible verse is from the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:28) — one of the three synoptic Gospels — and it's part of the story of ...

As a Catholic feast day, Jan. 1 has historically brought various strands together. For a long time, it was called the “Circumcision of the Lord” because, on the octave day of Christmas and in ...

The Christmas story was only her beginning. Two thousand years later, there’s something about Mary, the mother of Jesus, that continues to inspire and empower Christians around the world. Churches ...

Netflix's new movie "Mary" tells the story of the life of the woman who would eventually become known as the Theotokos, the Blessed Mother, the Queen of Heaven and more. The movie, directed by D.J.

"Happy New Year!" If you're from Denver, you not only might repeat that greeting through the month, but also leave your Christmas lights on until Jan. 22, the last day of the National Western Stock ...

The Vatican’s doctrine dicastery published a document on Tuesday strongly discouraging Catholics from referring to the ...

St. John Paul II “referred to Mary as ‘Co-redemptrix’ on at least seven occasions,” the note said, but after consultation ...