“Young people who are seeking or questioning their future can find Mary to be the one who helps them discern God’s plan for them and find the strength to follow it.”

If, so often, the sad fate of women is to bear what men have wrought, Mary does this like no other.

The vigil Mass on Saturday evening is not a "two-for-one" Mass for both days.

Miracles surround us; burning bushes keep revealing the Lord’s work. But we need to stop and notice.

Is it conceit or coincidence that a saint who was conceived without sin is the patron of a country that believes the same about itself?

Fewer than 200 words are attributed to Mary in Scripture, but those words have inspired innumerable prayers, hymns, sermons and other devotional practices, perhaps none more than her words at the Annunciation.