In the New Testament Mary speaks only four times, beginning with the Annunciation ... accepted by the church, it was in 1531 that the Virgin of Guadalupe spoke, in Nahuatl (the Aztec language ...

Eve, a virgin and undefiled, conceived the word of the serpent and bore disobedience and death. But the Virgin Mary received faith ... [the feast of] The Annunciation to the holy Mother of God ...

And such was the case with the Annunciation ... And so the Church venerates in Mary the purest realization of faith. 165 It is then we must turn to the witnesses of faith: to Abraham, who "in ...

These teachings of the Catholic Church may prove useful to include in talks, in homilies or for research. GENERAL Marialis Cultus, 1974 Anthropological: [This is one of the four mandated guidelines ...

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on November ... the 11th century within the Byzantine Catholic Church. It was introduced into the Roman Catholic ...

Things to do in Toronto this week include a grand live performance of the Lord of the Rings score, a wacky sideshow filled with oddities, and festive celebrations to ring in the Year of the Snake.

Toronto's best-known Lunar New Year celebration festival is back this year, welcoming in the Year of the Snake for the entire first week of February. Dragons are out, and it's all about the snake ...

The three levels of government will invest nearly a billion dollars in the transformation of Toronto’s eastern waterfront, officials said Tuesday — funds that will be used to lay the ...

In popular culture, songs about the Virgin Mary have been controversial because of their theological interpretations or political implications but dancehall artiste Ijahmar is not afraid to court ...

Snow dusts the ground of St. James Park in Toronto; a cold day with temperatures well below zero. Stationed next to each other in a corner of the greenspace are three tiny homes built to keep ...

Later on, the Catholic Church assigned a patron saint to ... The first Maltese documentation of a confraternity refers to the Annunciation of the Virgin at Vittoriosa in 1445.

An alligator-like reptile has found a new home after city staff discovered it had been living in a Toronto residence for over a decade, contrary to the city's bylaws. Toronto Animal Services ...