It's part of human nature to set aside certain days to mark events or to honor people. On a personal level we celebrate birthdays and anniversaries. On a secular level we celebrate the f ...

A great portent appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of ...

I became fascinated with this largely buried story, which led me to Pope Pius IX, the Vatican Secret Archives and eventually to my book, “The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara.” Perhaps because of the ...

The argument is that death is a punishment for original sin, and the dogma of Mary’s Immaculate Conception, her freedom from ...

She had several audiences with Pope Pius IX, who gave her great encouragement. She returned to Australia with a modified Rule, being assured by the officials of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide ...

Pope Pius XII in 1950 formally defined the dogma of the Assumption of Mary, which had been held by early Church Fathers.

In 1854, Pope Pius IX's solemn declaration, Ineffabilis Deus (link al documento que está en Marian documents), clarified with finality the long-held belief of the Church that Mary was conceived ...

“And then there were none” describes much of the government’s national security policy. In Defence, a thousand reviews and ...

This is frankly admitted by Roman Catholic authorities. Pope Pius IX in the famous Syllabus (1864) said: 'To hold that national Churches, withdrawn from the authority of the Roman Pontiff and ...

Papal documents on the pronouncement of the dogma: Apostolic Constitution issued by Pope Pius IX on December 8, 1854 Ad Diem Illum Laetissimum: On the Immaculate Conception, Encyclical of Pope Pius X ...

4) The Vaulter’s Pole Sometimes our gifts can be a hindrance as French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati learnt when he bar treated his equipment with the same disdain as Pope Pius IX. His plight (and ...

Pope Pius IX in 1854. Pius XII was instrumental in establishing the Feast of Mary's Queenship. The liturgical Feast of Christ the King honors the kingly dignity of Jesus Christ and was established in ...