Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated in song and poetry ... the Spanish Conquest of New Spain is justified solely on the ground that it allowed the Virgin Mary to become manifest in her chosen country, ...

Certain images and stories of the Virgin Mary are so powerful they help define a country. That’s the case with Our Lady of Guadalupe, whose image on the tilma, or cloak, of a poor Indian man ...

We have all seen her image. She is Our Lady of Guadalupe, a life-sized portrayal of the Virgin Mary as she appeared in 1531 on the cactus-cloth tilma, or cape, of St. Juan Diego, an Aztec peasant and ...

He visited the shrine of our ... Guadalupe in the new basilica built in her honor. There, in the presence of all the bishops of America, the holy Father addressed this prayer to the Blessed Virgin ...

Basilica set to close ahead of Our Lady of Guadalupe celebration We are days away from the anniversary of the Virgin Mary’s appearance on Tepeyac Hill, north of what is now Mexico City.

During the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis celebrates the life and witness of Blessed Fr. Moisés Lira Serafin, beatified the day ...

The Vatican issued a long-awaited note on the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It did not say ...

The Vatican has given the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary ... prefer Our Lady to be a mother ...

Some of those original “seers” have claimed the visions have occurred regularly since then, even daily, and that Mary sends them ... “I prefer Our Lady to be a mother, our mother, and ...

O most holy virgin, mother of our Lord Jesus Christ: by the overwhelming grief you experienced when you witnessed the martyrdom, the crucifixion, and the death of your divine Son, look upon me ...

Even Francis in 2017 expressed doubts about their messages, saying: “I prefer Our Lady to be a mother ... prayers next to the statue of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje (Armin Durgut/AP) It ...

The Vatican has given the go-ahead for Catholics to continue visiting a southern Bosnian village where children reported ...