Since the Roman Calendar Reform of 1969, the Church observes Jan. 1 as the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. This is not, ...

New Year’s Day Wünschung or “wishing” is an example of what anthropologists call “sympathetic magic.” Its practice is nigh ...

On the first day of 2025, Pope Francis warned Christians against “imagining or inventing a God in the abstract” during his ...

It usually falls on the Sunday after Christmas. The solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, looks to the role of Mary in the incarnation of Jesus Christ. She is the “Theotokos,” literally the God ...

On the eve of the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, the Church grants a plenary indulgence to those Christian faithful who ...

With these words, St. Augustine emphasizes the greatness of Mary as mother of the eternal Son of God, and the infinite ...

For Catholics, New Year's Day isn't just the first day of the new year: It's a day of holy obligation. January 1 marks the ...

NEW ORLEANS (OSV News) — Inside the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis King of France for the celebration of the 11 a.m. Mass on ...

Coinciding with the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, the World Day of Peace was instituted by Pope Paul VI in 1968. Pope Francis speaks to pilgrims gathered in the Paul VI Audience Hall for his ...

We can do neither without remembering Mary, the mother of Jesus ... drawing us closer to God. During the Advent season, Christians celebrate the great feast/solemnity of the Immaculate Conception ...

FOR most people, even the four-fifths of Filipinos who are Catholic, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary ... to turn back to God — sought by our Immaculate Mother — is an ...

Everything is ultimately subject to the judgement of God," said Pope Francis during the Eucharistic liturgy in St. Peter's Basilica on the occasion of the Solemnity of Christ ... receive it along with ...