Pope Francis shares a laugh with a bishop after his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Aug. 23, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) Below is the text of Pope Francis’ weekly ...

The Feast of St. Juan Diego, an Aztec peasant who witnessed an indigenous apparition of the Virgin Mary and later became the first canonized indigenous American saint, is a time for hope and healing ...

On Dec. 12 we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. This is the feast of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Juan Diego, a native Mexican peasant who experienced apparitions of Mary on the ...

A mosaic depicts St. Juan Diego revealing a tilma full of roses and the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe at a Guadalupe shrine at St. Juan Diego Catholic Church in Pasadena, Texas, Dec. 13, 2021. (CNS ...

Platas is director of religious education at St. Didacus Catholic Church and lives in Normal Heights. I lead religious education at St. Didacus Catholic Church, where I have served for two decades. On ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — In North Park Sunday, thousands of members of the Catholic Church celebrated ‘Our Lady of Guadalupe.’ It's a day that honors The Virgin Mary, and according to Cardinal Robert ...