I write regarding the May 18 article “Why popes and other Catholics pray to the Virgin Mary.” The Associated Press article in the Maine Sunday Telegram, about the Virgin Mary, gave a good ...

That’s just three of a myriad Virgin Marys around the world, whose veneration is central to Catholics from the pope to the ordinary faithful. Even many of the less-than-devout know what it means ...

St. Mary has a nice design turn or two, while remaining modest enough to fit in with the postwar, single-family homes that grew up with it in Riverdale and Dolton, the latter being Pope Leo XIV ...

“We all help each other out,” said Sophia Kurlandski, 13, who has the role of Dorothy in the musical “The Wizard of Oz (Youth Edition)” at St. Nicholas – St. Mary School in Wilkes-Barre.

During his own pontificate, Francis habitually visited it to pray, a total of 126 times. At the dawn of the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis had Salus Populi Romani brought to St. Peter’s Basilica.

Thousands of people also streamed past Francis' tomb on Sunday at St. Mary Major Basilica, a 1,600-year-old church and shrine to the Virgin Mary a few miles from the Vatican where the pope, in ...

Pope Francis will break tradition by being buried at Santa Maria Maggiore, a beloved basilica outside the Vatican, after a funeral in St. Peter’s Square.

Pope Francis was laid to rest in the basilica of St. Mary Major on Saturday, April 26 In a break from tradition, Francis' burial plans made him the the first pope in more than a century not to be ...

Pope Francis told Mackrikas, who is the coadjutor archpriest of the Basilica of St. Mary Major, that the Virgin Mary appeared before him, requesting that he be laid to rest in her church.

The Virgin Mary icon seemed to become almost an ally for Francis in his papacy. He visited her on his first day as pope in 2013, and would pray to her before and after every trip out of Rome.

SHERLOCK: The Virgin Mary icon seemed to become an ally for Francis in his papacy. On his first day as pope in 2013, he slipped out of the Vatican to visit the shrine, and he returned to St. Mary ...

View of the Piazza e Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Square and Church of Saint Mary Major with its Marian column, Rome. (Views of Rome Ancient and Modern with the ruins of war, Rome, 1849) ...