Mexico’s Virgin of Guadalupe pilgrimage returns unrestricted; Pope sympathises with migrant caravans
Mexico City, Mexico AP Mexico’s largest religious pilgrimage for its Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe returned Monday without restrictions for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. For two years, the multi-day pilgrimage had been cancelled or curtailed because the massive numbers of faithful presented a risk of contagion. Pilgrims camp outside the Basilica of Guadalupe […]
Devotion to Virgin Mary draws millions to Mexico City shrine
Mexico City AP It is the one of the world’s most visited and beloved religious venues – the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, with a circular, tent-shaped roof visible from miles away and a sacred history that each year draws millions of pilgrims from near and far to its hilltop site in Mexico City. […]
Quake-hit Mexico church with iconic Virgin image gets rehab
Mexico City, MexicoAP Under a white tent on the street outside Our Lady of the Angels on a recent Sunday, Rev Adrián Vázquez led parishioners seated in pews and plastic chairs in celebrating 10 o’clock Mass, flanked by piles of rubble from the sanctuary left there by a deadly earthquake nearly five years ago. […]
As war rages, Ukrainian joins thousands in Portugal to pray for peace
Fatima, PortugalReuters Armed with a candle and a blue and yellow flag, Karina Potomkina, a Ukrainian who has been watching her country being ravaged by war from afar, joined tens thousands of faithful in Portugal on Thursday evening to pray for peace. Potomkina, a 42-year-old who moved from the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia to Lisbon […]
Pope seeks to ”liberate” Virgin Mary from the Mafia
Rome, ItalyAP Pope Francis is giving his blessing to a new Vatican thinktank that is seeking to prevent the Mafia and organised crime groups from exploiting the image of the Virgin Mary for their own illicit ends. The Vatican’s Pontifical Marian Academy launched the thinktank on Friday at a conference entitled “Liberating Mary from the […]
Chicago’s Soldier Field rolls out blue carpet for drive-in screening of movie ‘Fatima’
Chicago, USRNS The iconic Soldier Field, home to the Chicago Bears, was unusually packed for a summer night. But the crowd wasn’t there to see a football game. They were there to see a miracle – or, at least, a film about one. Bishop Joseph N Perry speaks at a screening of ‘Fatima’ at Soldier […]
ESSAY: WHAT LEONARDO’S DEPICTION OF THE VIRGIN MARY AND JESUS TELLS US ABOUT HIS RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
Ahead of the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci on 2nd May, DIANE APOSTOLOS-CAPPADONA, of Georgetown University in the US, writes in an an article first published on The Conversation about what his art says of his religious beliefs…
In the US, a new Christmas pageant shows off the fierce side of Mary
RNS If you ask Rev Katy Fitz Shedlock, there is something wrong with the way Mary is portrayed in most church Christmas pageants. She’s boring. A traditional depiction of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus in a pageant manger scene. ‘Deleted Scenes Christmas Pageant’ skips most traditional depictions of the holy family. PICTURE: Tech Sgt Jared […]