Our Lady of Lourdes was the first Marian apparition I ever learned of, largely because St. Bernadette was my favorite of the excellent CCC saint movies I watched as a child. I admit I mostly focused ...

To Gaillard Teague, who’s starting Spring Hill College this month, there is a site on campus that holds special meaning. Not far from St. Joseph Chapel, the college’s church, is the Grotto of Our Lady ...

I have a personal interest in the abandoned Catholic Church at the corner of Main and Best streets as this was where I was baptized, and where my older brothers attended school and were alter boys.

Lourdes is a place where “people count” – not just in the sense of looking after each other, but also in the terms of ...

Candles are seen around a statue of Mary in the grotto at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France in this file photo. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen OXFORD, United Kingdom — An international ...

Seventy medical cures have been investigated and officially approved by the Lourdes Office of Medical Assessments. And a “miraculous” healing of cancer, for example, is typically defined as a ...

Sometimes the path to serve others takes a circuitous route. Such is the case of Sister Uyen Vu, a member of the order of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, the order that founded Our Lady of ...

Every December 10th, the Catholic Church commemorates Our Lady of Loreto, a Marian devotion recognized as the patroness of aviators, travelers, and builders. The devotion began in the 14th century ...