GENAZZANO, Italy — Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On his first papal trip, he went to the Sanctuary of ...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has approved an alternative Filipino version of the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer. The new version of the ‘Ave Maria’ was ...

Teresa Rodriguez was working as a hospice nurse, seeing patients at a memory care facility, when she realized that her patients were not being offered any spiritual services. While speaking with a ...

The image of Our Mother of Good Counsel is displayed in the Basilica of the Sanctuary in Genazzano, Italy, on May 15, 2025. AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia GENAZZANO, Italy — Pope Leo XIV closed his first ...

That’s just three of a myriad Virgin Marys around the world, whose veneration is central to Catholics from the pope to the ordinary faithful. Even many of the less-than-devout know what it means to ...