The feast of Mary, Mother of the Church was inserted into the General Roman Calendar by Pope Francis in 2018, but has its roots in the reform of the liturgical calendar in 1969 and the Jubilee Year of ...
(RNS) — A new book, the fruit of 20 years of research, aims to unearth Mary’s real identity, which the author said has been lost amid centurieslong attempts to paint her as an ever-virgin, ...
An ancient depiction of a naked woman hung on the wall of my father’s study. Skeletal, stupefied, and wildly bedheaded, she contemplated distances across time and space, as saints and mystics do. As ...