Gisella Cardia purchased a statue of the Virgin Mary at Bosnia and Herzegovina's Medjugorje, where thousands of religious pilgrims flock annually. The Sicilian native created her own pilgrimage site ...

There's never a dull moment in the Howell household with 8-year-old Maisley's hilarious renditions of the Bible.

The “Personal Corporeal Presence of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Heaven” is the name ... place of Mary’s death or of her bodily assumption into heaven. Certain apocryphal documents containing ...

St. Alphonsus de Liguori is one among the saints who writes that Mary died for sheer longing and love of the Savior. Below is a quotation from his seventh discourse, "The Assumption ... the Virgin ...

Her latest book published by Word on Fire is The Mary Pages: An Atheist’s Journey to the Mother of God. Although raised in an atheist household, as a child she saw images of the Blessed Virgin ...

After the Northridge earthquake all but destroyed his grandmother’s Santa Monica home in 1994, the Blessed Mother remained on the patio when the family evacuated at 4 a.m. “The home was red-tagged, ...

purchased the Virgin Mary statue from a nursery last year. Peter built the concrete platform to display it on their property. Jackie and Peter learned of the statue’s resilience when their son-in-law ...

Demolition is underway of the former St. Mary's of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church in Rome, which was damaged by the July 16 tornado.

But almost as difficult for Protestants to accept is the Roman Catholic cult of Mary, whom Catholics ... Immaculate Conception and of the Assumption into heaven—both doctrines that have been ...

(Marienlexikon, vol 3, 200) In the light of a long history of Christian belief since patristic times, in 1950, Pope Pius XII defined Mary's Assumption into Heaven as a dogma of Roman Catholicism: "the ...