"And he came to her and said, 'Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!'" This Bible verse is from the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:28) — one of the three synoptic Gospels — and it's part of the story of ...

GENAZZANO, Italy (AP) — 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 ...

“Hail, Mary” was a splendid analysis of a development in spirituality that goes profoundly beyond the goddess fad that has captured our imaginations for years [March 21]. The piety and deepest ...

The life of the Christian is a life of prayer. When we pray, we do not pray alone. We are directing our prayer to God, who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and we make our prayers as members of the ...

Pope Leo XIV prays in front of a fresco of Our Lady of Good Counsel at the shrine named after the image in Genazzano, Italy, southeast of Rome, on May 10, 2025. The shrine, with a famous image of Mary ...

St. John Paul II “referred to Mary as ‘Co-redemptrix’ on at least seven occasions,” the note said, but after consultation ...