A friend of mine received a set of virtual reality goggles last Christmas and invited me over to try them out. I was not expecting much. When I first tried VR a few years ago, I found the technology clunky and expensive, and the images were about as “real” as scenes from my 1999 version […]
Virgin Mary
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis entrusts to Mary victims of disasters, conflict and social tension on the Assumption
After reciting the Angelus prayer on the feast of the Assumption, the pope asked Mary to obtain “for everyone consolation and a future of serenity and harmony.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A better way to teach teenage boys about the Virgin Mary
Talking about Mary at an all-boys Jesuit high school isn’t easy. But art helps.
Posted inFaith, News
Facing a “post-Christian” society: Chaput and Gomez tackle cultural change at Napa Institute conference
The NAPA Institute held its seventh annual conference in California last week. The conference featured a number of theologians, politicians, and clergy, including Archbishops Charles Chaput and Jose Gomez.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Seeking Mary in a world of crisis: a Q&A with Carrie Gress
Carrie Gress is the author of “The Marian Option: God’s Solution to a Civilization in Crisis.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Seeing myself in the Black Madonna
I grew up in the era of “Black is Beautiful.” But standing before ‘La Moreneta’ was different.
Posted inFaith, News
What’s going on with Medjugorje? An interview with a priest assigned to investigate it.
“The commission held as credible the first apparitions,” he said. “Afterward, things became a little more complicated.”
Posted inFaith, News
Medjugorje commission reportedly thought first seven Marian visions were real
The commission established to study the alleged apparitions of Mary at Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, reportedly voted overwhelmingly to recognize as supernatural the first seven appearances of Mary in 1981.
Posted inFaith, Video
Pope Francis: I prefer Mary as mother not the Madonna of the post office.
Pope Francis dismisses reports of continuing apparitions of the Virgin Mary at the Medjugorje shrine in southern Bosnia. He says the visions “don’t have much value” even if the shrine can help Catholics find God.
Posted inFaith
Updates from Fatima: reports a historic trip and canonization
Updates on Pope Francis’ trip to Fatima as well as the canonization of Jacinta and Francisco Marto.