No matter how a mother loses a child, the mourning must feel like an abyss. Mary’s child is every child who has died too soon.
Virgin Mary
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Mary’s death in Christian art: Remembering her as more than a mother
When we honor Mary the mother, the moon who shines by the light of her son, we should also remember that her soul shone with its own light, too.
Posted inThe Good Word
The Virgin of Guadalupe is still our mother
A Homily for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, by Father Terrance Klein
Posted inThe Good Word
The Christmas carol verse that perfectly explains the Immaculate Conception
A Homily for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. by Father Terrance Klein
Posted inArt
To see as Mary sees: Marian art in an age of distraction
Marian art shows that distractability is itself a form of attention, one that is essential to living a Christian life.
Posted inPodcasts
Why the Vatican banned the controversial Marian title ‘Co-redemptrix’
On “Inside the Vatican” this week, Vatican correspondents Gerard O’Connell and Colleen Dulle discuss the new doctrinal statement on Mary and look at St. John Henry Newman being named a doctor of the church and co-patron of Catholic education.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
Vatican officially says no to controversial titles for Mary: ‘Co-redemptrix’ and ‘Mediatrix of all Graces’
The titles risk obscuring the revealed truth that Christ is “the sole Mediator and Redeemer,” a new document from the Vatican’s doctrinal office says.
Posted inFaith and Reason
Pope Leo’s very Marian papacy (so far)
Several months into the papacy of Leo XIV, we have an opportunity to examine the way his young papacy is embracing a Marian face.
Posted inSpeeches
Full text: Pope Leo’s homily for the feast of the Assumption
“Brothers and sisters, when in this life we “choose life,” we are right to see in Mary, assumed into heaven, our own destiny.”
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Why Catholics need to resist the controlling narrative about the Assumption
Mary’s Assumption doesn’t appear in Scripture. But that doesn’t mean it’s just a human addendum to church teaching.