A sculpture depicting the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus has been destroyed just days after it went on view at a cathedral in northern Austria and drew criticism from some Catholics ...

Jesus Christ on the cross is not only a story of total surrender and eternal redemption. It is also a tale of all-embracing ...

105 A.D. "[Jesus] became man by the Virgin so that ... conceived the word of the serpent and bore disobedience and death. But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel Gabriel ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s apparition time: 5:40 p.m. In a small Roman Catholic chapel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the village of ...

Roughly 100 Catholics from across the county paraded down Worth Avenue, singing hymns and reciting prayers in veneration of ...

JESUS and Virgin Mary statues have been left looking like cartoon characters after a restoration job went wrong. The religious shrine in Poland has been mocked after the botched restoration left ...

For over 200 years, villagers in southern Poland have paid homage to a roadside shrine depicting Jesus and the Virgin Mary. But now locals are up in arms after a botched renovation of the 1820 ...

Far out in the South Pacific, there’s a tropical island called Bougainville. Its people are devoutly Catholic — with a twist. Many revere the Virgin Mary almost as much as her son, Jesus. Women are ...

For over 200 years, villagers in southern Poland have paid homage to a roadside shrine depicting Jesus and the Virgin Mary. But now locals are up in arms after a botched renovation of the 1820 ...

157 The Church has always understood these passages as not referring to other children of the Virgin Mary. In fact James and Joseph, "brothers of Jesus", are the sons of another Mary, a disciple ...

The figure of Jesus appeared as if it were wearing grey ... said the renovation was "a rather rare depiction of the Virgin Mary" that was likely done with "good intentions", members of the public ...

The rector of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Oratory in Montclair sees an upcoming one-day exhibit at the church featuring hundreds ...