The callous creep used a rock to desecrate the statue in front of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Parsons Boulevard in Jamaica at around 3:15 a.m. Tuesday, the Diocese of Brooklyn said.

The year was 1945, and 9-year-old Joseph Vitolo was playing in an empty lot on the Grand Concourse when he said The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to him. The story made headlines around the world as… ...

September 8 marks the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. For the faithful in Cuba - and other Hispanic countries - Mary is also venerated on this day under the title Our Lady of ...

All this laid the foundation that enabled Blessed Paul VI, at the conclusion of the Third Session of the Second Vatican Council, Nov. 21, 1964, to declare the Blessed Virgin Mary as “Mother of ...