The damage can be repaired, but the shock wave triggered by the May 6 detonation of an explosive device by an intruder could ...

The shock wave was powerful enough to damage three stained glass windows and puncturing a hole in the aura of the Blessed Virgin Mary in one. The stained glass windows, transplanted from the ...

HAVING survived fires in the 14th and 20th centuries, the dissolution of the monasteries, and acts of destruction during the ...

St. Brigid’s Parish, Cabinteely: Weekday Masses are celebrated in St. Brigid’s Church, Cabinteely on Monday, Tuesday, ...

The church's owner hopes the papal link can help efforts to save and reuse the parish buildings on the Far South Side.

Kilheeney said. While Kilheeney said he didn’t know the pope personally, the 66-year-old said he used to attend St. Mary of the Assumption. He believes he may have been blessed by Pope Leo back ...

Turning to the First Communicants who would be receiving Jesus that day, he said this would be a day they would never forget.

His daily conversation with the Virgin Mary has begun ... generations will call me blessed.” Indeed they have. Yet clues about her life are elusive. Scholars of Mary must take what they can ...

More than 3 million visitors, pilgrims and tourists come each year to the Grotto of Massabielle, where the Virgin Mary appeared to ... was told to always bring a blessed candle with her.