Sister Albert Marie recently worked with another member of her community, Maria Veritas Marks, O.P., to write and compile the Manual for Marian Devotion published by TAN Books on December 21. On ...

A statue of Mary with a crown, and a painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe are pictured at Sacred Heart Church in Prescott, Ariz., May 5, 2025. The month of May is devoted to Mary and is traditionally ...

It was in Rome, towards the end of the eighteenth century, one fine evening in May. A child of the poor gathered his companions around him and led them to a statue of Mary, before which a lamp was ...

Marian devotions have been an evolving part of Catholic Church history, spirituality and the faith of countless Catholics worldwide. Popular Marian veneration is expressed in simple acts that include ...

When Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., consecrated the school to the Blessed Mother on Sept. 8, 2013, now-new graduate Mary Minnis, the daughter of Benedictine President Stephen Minnis, asked ...

When I was well into my 40s and en route to a medical meeting, Maddie, a cab driver who had driven me multiple times to the airport, blurted out, “Dr. Wes, what’s the deal with Catholics and Mary?” ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- American poet Mary Oliver died Jan. 17 at age 83. Her death caused a re-inspection and renewed appreciation of her work, and propelled her collection “Devotions,” originally published ...

For more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver has been training her eye on the mysterious and mystical thrumming of the divine. She sets out on a hike through the woods and ...