St. Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Church in Monessen gathered for its annual Christmas luncheon Jan. 5 at Rodney’s Restaurant in Irwin. While waiting for their lunches to be served, Deacon John Hanchin ...

Either the person Jesus is “true God and true man” — and Mary is the mother of that person, or Christmas is a lie. Catholic teaching ... in the 15th-century icon “The Nativity,” prayed ...

O’Brien had earlier run away with her older lover, Ernest Gebler, which led to a farcical and ultimately unsuccessful attempt ...

Both the Knights’ new Pilgrim Icon Program and the Holy Father’s encyclical coincide with the Catholic Church’s ... Heart of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the French nun who received ...

When Mary Lou Williams arrived at Duke in 1977 as the University’s first artist-in-residence, she was already an icon in the ...

Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more secure if Dennett’s had prevailed?

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Black Madonna is a term used to describe images of the Virgin Mary and the Infant ... in some quarters of the Catholic Church. There are numerous examples of icons, paintings, and wooden statues ...

From an early age, Felicitas Romero’s mother encouraged her to turn to the Holy Spirit for guidance. Although she was ...

But Mary gained millions of new Catholic followers with the Spanish ... Millions of pilgrims trek there to see the Black Madonna, an icon believed to bestow miracles upon the faithful.

Efforts focused on fulfilling the goal set by Congress in 1994 of making the holiday a “day on, not a day off.” ...

The Lamb of Christ, found on an altar at Saint Patrick’s Basilica, represents Jesus’s devotion to guiding and leading the Christian people to salvation. In Ancient Greek and Roman pagan traditions, ...