In 1531, the Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego on a hill known as Tepeyac (now part of Mexico City), leaving her image on his cloak. At first, a bishop stored...
Mary
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Often, Catholics refer to Mary with the various honorifics we have attached to her over the centuries:...
On a morning in 1531, a decade after the brutality of the Spanish conquest, a Nahua peasant walked through the hills near present-day Mexico City. The man’s...
The rosary is probably the most well-known of all Catholic prayer practices. Many Catholics grew up praying it as part of their family or community devotions...
The church can take a long time to approve a Marian apparition. In 2010, when Bishop David Ricken of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, announced the...
When Juana de la Cruz Vasquez Gutiérrez was only 4 years old, she was injured in a fall from a horse. As she lay on the ground, she had a vision in which Mary...
When Mary gave birth to Jesus, what was it like? Did she experience the same anxiety, fear, mess, and pain that any woman can expect when preparing for...
On a brisk winter day in the Kingdom of Sicily, around the year 1250, two young men made a journey to the Shrine of Montevergine. The local villagers, seeing...
In 2022, when Pope Francis canonized St. Titus Brandsma, all I knew about the saint was that he was a Carmelite friar who was murdered at the Dachau...
One thing I didn’t expect about working at a parish named Our Lady of Sorrows was the frequency with which friends, acquaintances, and strangers, upon hearing...
