Begin with this Friday (the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus) and Saturday (the Optional Memorial of the ...

Most say having a personal relationship with Jesus is essential to Catholic identity. Roughly half say this about Marian devotion and helping the poor, according to Pew Research Center.

The union of Jesus’ Sacred Heart and Mary’s Immaculate Heart is more than poetic — it’s a spiritual key to understanding God’s love and our response to it.

The Rev. James Kelly has baptized thousands of people, married thousands more, ministered to the sick in hospitals, and ...

The Rev. James Kelly baptized and married thousands of people, ministered to the ill at hospitals and traveled the world.

Elenita de Jesús "is not the Virgin Mary," Fernández, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, wrote in the letter. Any attempt to identify her as Jesus Christ or the Virgin ...

Mary - "ever-virgin" 499 The deepening of faith in the virginal motherhood led the Church to confess Mary's real and perpetual virginity even in the act of giving birth to the Son of God made man ...

Lift me up not from Sara but from Mary, a virgin not only undefiled but a virgin whom grace had made inviolate, free of every stain of sin." St. Ambrose, "Commentary on Psalm 118," c. 387 A.D.

While reporting relatively low levels of attendance at Mass, almost half of US adults (47%) say they have a personal or ...

Their faces, hats and flamenco dresses caked in dust, hundreds of pilgrims gathered around an ox-driven carriage with their icon of ...