"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 ...

Jan. 1 marks more than the start of a new year — it is also the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, and the World Day of Peace. The two celebrations are connected because, as St. Paul VI wrote in 1974, ...

President Donald Trump honored the feast of the Immaculate Conception, which appears to be the first time a U.S. president ...

"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 ...

Pope Francis reads his homily during the Mass for the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, Jan. 1, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen On the first day ...

The Feast of Mary, the Mother of God, celebrated on January 1st, is a very appropriate way to begin a new year. Thus, the ideal motto for the New Year should be “Through Mary to Jesus!” This is a ...

What truth does the church convey about the Immaculate Conception? That Mary of Nazareth, who would become the ever-virgin ...

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 ...

Pope Leo, in his address to the faithful, said, ‘The Lord has granted to Mary the extraordinary grace of a completely pure ...

On the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, today, Pope Leo XIV prayed the Angelus with pilgrims in St Peter's Square and ...

We remember so little of our lives. We might not think ourselves short of childhood memories, but those we retain are such a small sampling of those years. Do you know who remembers more about your ...

The Solemnity of Mary as the Mother of God concludes the octave of Christmas, or the eight days following Christ’s birth. Pope Francis offers Mass for the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God in St. Peter ...