Talking about Mary at an all-boys Jesuit high school isn’t easy. But art helps.

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.

Carrie Gress is the author of "The Marian Option: God's Solution to a Civilization in Crisis."

I grew up in the era of “Black is Beautiful.” But standing before ‘La Moreneta’ was different.

"The commission held as credible the first apparitions," he said. "Afterward, things became a little more complicated."

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.