Images of the Annunciation featured Mary reading Scripture when the angel Gabriel appeared to her: This symbolized the incarnation of Christ as the Word made flesh (Jn 1:14: “And the Word was ...

Convert poet Sally Read returns to England’s Marian shrine. Above, poet and Catholic covert Sally Read prays among the ruins of the Franciscan friary at England’s chief Marian shrine in ...

In 2014, on his 60th birthday, Msgr. John Armitage, then vicar general of the Diocese of Brentwood, England, was appointed the rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in Norfolk. Following ...

CNA Staff, Sep 17, 2020 / 00:00 am. Sharing in Mary's joy is "the greatest antidote to fear and anxiety," the outgoing rector of England's national Marian shrine said Saturday.

Mary in the Catholic Press. Pope Francis to give Knock Shrine new international status on St. Joseph's feast [Catholic News Agency] March 11, 2021. Pope Francis will officially designate Knock Shrine ...

On Tuesday EWTN opened its first studio and office in the U.K. at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, emphasizing its role in supporting the Church's evangelization in the region.

Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory blesses a new statue of Our Lady of Fatima at the Rosary Walk and Garden outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Oct. 23, 2022.

The Catholic doctrine of the Hypostatic Union historically started in Nazareth when Mary, during the Annunciation, said: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Be it done to me according to your word ...

This, however, was not the first time that Mary’s immaculate conception was taught, noted Vu. "There are records as early as the 7th and 8th centuries showing this widely held belief in the Church." ...

Ten months after a marble statue of Our Lady of Fatima was vandalized and destroyed beyond repair, a replacement statue was blessed Oct. 23 by Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory.