Pope Pius XII in 1950 formally defined the dogma of the Assumption of Mary, which had been held by early Church Fathers. The ceiling of Santa Maria Immacolata a via Veneto in Rome depicts the ...

Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Hampshire survey, 1993. Summary A full-length figure of the Virgin Mary, dressed in robes and standing on clouds and a crescent moon. Her hands are folded on her chest, ...

Every year in mid-August, I find myself praying with the image of the Assumption. I imagine what it was like as the Blessed Mother was assumed body and soul into heaven and encountered her resurrected ...

Mary's "yes" to God, to life and to love continues "in the martyrs of our time, in witnesses of faith and justice, of gentleness and peace," Pope Leo XIV said as he celebrated Mass on the feast of ...

St. Mary’s Church celebrates its patronal feast on Friday, Aug. 15, on the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the 157th anniversary of the founding of the parish. The Solemn Mass ...

In a letter to his brothers and sisters in Christ, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, appealed for peace in the Holy Land and included a prayer to Our Lady on the feast of ...

Virgin Mary is standing on clouds with a ray of light on her. On either side, sitting on the clouds, are two angels holding a cloth full of flower petals, some of which are falling.