VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has approved the inclusion of three additional invocations in the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also called the Litany of Loreto. In a June 20 letter to the presidents ...

Fr. Mike Barrett, pastor of Our Lady of Good Hope in Milwaukee, invited participants at a presentation on Mary in St. Joseph's Parish in Grafton, Wisconsin, to write their own litany to the Blessed ...

The prayer was the culmination of a worldwide day of fasting, prayer, and penance for peace in the world called for by the Pope amid the escalating war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Pope ...

On this page we present two articles on Karol Szymanowski's "Litany to the Virgin Mary op. 59" - by Polish Music Information Center (2004) and by Piotr Deptuch (2002). Polish Music Information Center: ...

THE influence of a Jewish girl has crossed oceans of time and space. Thousands of years after her birth, Mary, whom according to Christian texts was chosen by God to bear his only son, Jesus Christ, ...

Despite such extravagant beginnings, the Litany eventually petered down to a more private devotion, at least among certain religious communities. When I was a member of the Society of Jesus from 1952 ...

Pope Francis with an ancient icon of Mary in the Basilica of St. Mary Major on January 28. VATICAN—Pope Francis has approved the inclusion of three additional invocations in the Litany of the Blessed ...