How a group of Florentine businessmen became the founders of an order that would span continents and centuries.

Any event can be marked by cake, perhaps most surprisingly the solemn fast of Good Friday, with its hot cross buns ...

Q: Describe the origins of Mary's title: Our Lady of Sorrows? A: The Catholic Church celebrates ... Devotion to the five sorrows of Mary appears first and eventually develops into devotion to seven ...

The seven sorrows are a series of events that the Virgin ... order to protect her son from the massacre decreed by Herod. Our Lady's third pain is The Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple ...

every beating of my heart may henceforward be an act of compassion to thy sorrows, and of complacency for the glory thou now enjoyest in heaven. Since then, O dear mother, I now compassionate thy ...

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 ...

It was championship Sunday at the Mercer County CYO as all six division’s crowned champions and team and individual awards ...

At 17,000 congregants, Our Lady of Sorrows is the largest parish in the ... Nessel’s investigation into sexual abuse within the seven Catholic dioceses across the state. Gary Berthiaume, 78 ...