Why is she so called?—she who never had any blow, or wound, or other injury to her consecrated person. How can she be exalted over those...

For Scripture says, “Jacob loved him (Joseph) because he was the son of his old age” (Gen 37:3). Thus in a world that had become old and...

Mary has been made more glorious in her person than in her office; her purity is a higher gift than her relationship to God. This is what...

Merit and reconciliation may be different names for a single reality, the general salvific causality. Yet these two names are not...

The nature and the extent of the knowledge possessed by the Blessed Virgin Mary while she was still on earth have never been decided by...

In continuing his series of sermons on St. John’s vision of the woman clothed with the sun, St. Lawrence comes in the fifth of his seven...

Israel’s monarchy arose in very specific historic circumstances in a particular geographic region. In the ancient Near East, most nations...

I. Apocryphal Reference of the Feast The liturgical memorial of the Presentation of Our Lady raises interesting questions. It does not...

This article was excerpted from St. John Eudes, The Wondrous Childhood of the Most Holy Mother of God (Albany, NY: Preserving Christian...

The following beautiful words on Our Lady are excerpted from Henry Wordsworth Longfellow’s work Christus: A Mystery. – Ed. This is indeed...

It is no secret that Catholic theology and devotion have produced many excellent works on the Blessed Virgin Mary and likewise on the...