The marble used for both the statues and the Duomo itself comes from the quarries of Candoglia in Italy’s Piedmont region.

Pope Leo XIV this week blessed a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary known as the "Broken Mary," part of a project organized by ...

Mary's Peace Garden will be dedicated on Sunday, March 15, at a Mass and ceremony at which the parish will also celebrate its ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Vandals caused destruction when they broke into a Catholic school in Long Beach and trashed the assembly hall, chapel, classrooms and destroyed a Virgin Mary statue. Video ...

Multiple rooms were discovered ransacked Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, at Holy Innocents School in Long Beach. Photo courtesy Tony Tripp. When the principal of Holy Innocents School arrived on campus Monday ...

The Vatican Gardens welcomed a new Marian mosaic and a statue of St. Rose of Lima, both created by young artists from Peru -- ...

Pilgrims hold up statues of the infant Jesus to be blessed during Pope Leo XIV’s Sunday Angelus address in St. Peter’s Square Dec. 21, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – Pope Leo XIV Sunday ...

Millions of faithful descend on Mexico City each year, at first by bike or by foot and then often crawling on their knees in honor, to behold Our Virgin of Guadalupe. Leonardo Batalla Barrios, a ...

Lea el artículo en español aquí. For decades, local pilgrims have defied cold nights, rain, blisters — even serious accidents — to make the annual 12-mile trek from Santa Rosa to Windsor for the Feast ...

A Virgin Mary statue holding the baby Jesus is just one a handfull of items left from the heavily dmamge St. Thomas Church on U.S. 90 in Long Beach. The church was nearly demolished for the high ...

FAR ROCKAWAY — Father Francis Shannon said he was shocked to find out that St. Mary Star of the Sea Church was vandalized on Oct. 5 — the third time in one week that his parish, which also includes St ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – More than 150 representations of the Virgin Mary are on display in Albuquerque. The San Ignacio Church in Martinez Town is hosting an exhibit featuring collections of ...