Netflix's new movie "Mary" tells the story of the life of the woman who would eventually become known as the Theotokos, the Blessed Mother ... entirely inhabited by God, there is no room within ...

Honoring Mary as the mother of God on Jan. 1 is, in fact, the earliest celebration of this date in the Roman Church. Speaking of Mary as “Theotokos,” the “God-bearer” or “mother of God ...

that Mary did indeed have a choice to assent to God’s will and become the “Theotokos,” the mother of God. Mark Miravalle, who holds the St. John Paul II Chair of Mariology at Franciscan ...

For Christians, Mary is revered as the Mother of God (Theotokos) and the first disciple of Christ. Her “yes” to God’s plan was the foundation of salvation history, and her unwavering ...

The Catholic Church has appropriated May for the devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Thus, every Catholic Church celebrates the religious festival called Flore ...

Without Mary, said Miravalle, there simply would not be a Christmas season. "Nine months before December 25, a young Jewish woman ‘full of grace’ was invited to become the 'Mother of God ...

Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On his first papal trip, he went to the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good ...

No genre gesture goes untapped in the deliberately hagiographic “Mary,” a coming-of-age saga about the mother of Jesus ... he tries to upstage and upend God’s promise.

During this Christmas season, as millions reflect on the Nativity story, it is worth considering Mary, the Mother of God, and the enduring message her life conveys. God chose this ordinary, to the ...