Carrie Gress is the author of “The Marian Option: God’s Solution to a Civilization in Crisis.”
Virgin Mary
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.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis goes as a pilgrim to Fatima “to share the Gospel of hope and peace”
One million pilgrims are expected to join Pope Francis in Fatima on May 12 to 13 for the centenary celebration of the apparitions of Our Lady to three Portuguese shepherd children.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
The story of Fatima: the apparitions, the miracles and the journey to sainthood
On Saturday Pope Francis will canonize two of the children who saw the Marian apparitions in 1917.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Reflecting on the frightening lessons of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
If anyone doubted the damage a shallow, sanitized Marian ideal of womanhood could inflict—on women, on faith and on the church—Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ shows us.
