In Spain, about a million people participated in the annual pilgrimage honoring the Rocío Virgin, a Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary. They sang flamenco songs, shared homemade food and held Masses in ...

A new Catholic prayer app for children and their parents called Theo plans to host the largest Advent celebration for ...

Catholic and Orthodox Christians -- and a few Protestants, too -- will celebrate Tuesday the taking up of Jesus' mother from earth to heaven. The Western church refers to it as the Solemnity of the ...

December 12 is The Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which commemorates Mexico’s patron saint, the Virgin Mary, who appeared to a peasant on his way to mass in what is now Mexico City. Local faithful ...