In 2023, it was a year of celebration for Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish, 418 W. 15th St. in Lorain. Operation Care Package prepares largest ‘Santa’s Helpers’ event yet Oberlin holiday ...
We cannot celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas without Mary. Nor can we observe Advent without the Blessed Mother. “Among creatures, no one knows Christ better than Mary; no one can introduce us ...
When I think about God’s mercy, it’s the image of the Miraculous Medal that springs to my mind. It was through its intercession that I was able to fully recover my path to the Catholic faith as a ...
According to the Church's liturgical calendar, the feast held on Feb. 2 each year is in honor of the Presentation of the Lord.
The inner mystery of God is the mystery of a family, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Our prayer life is shaped by this central mystery of our faith, as we pray to the Father, in the Son, and by the ...
In his History of the Reformation in Scotland, John Knox described an incident from his early life as a Protestant. Having been delivered from "the puddle of papistry," as he called it, he was taken ...
A “hateful” vandal smashed a statue of the Blessed Mary outside a Catholic church in Queens this week, police said. The callous creep used a rock to desecrate the statue in front of the Presentation ...
Police believe the two statues and a wall plaque were damaged Tuesday night. At the Church of the Ascension School in Halethorpe, Father John Williamson found two statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary ...
Pierre Ferragu still remembers visiting Lourdes, where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Saint Bernadette, as a child.