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In the middle of marking two feasts of the Blessed Mother — the Assumption and the Queenship of Mary — Zenit has published a report on one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Virgin: Juan Diego’s tilma. Take a look: A physicist who has spent years researching the tilma bearing the image of Our…

I never thought it would be possible for someone to make an absorbing movie in which the central dramatic question turned on whether a 30-year-old woman from Queens could master the art of boning a duck. But then Nora Ephron made “Julie & Julia,” and another preconception bit the dust. My wife and I went…

That’s evidently the latest rule enacted in Spain as a way of averting swine flu. Details: For centuries, pilgrims have visited one of Roman Catholicism’s holiest shrines—the cathedral holding the purported remains of St. James the Apostle, Spain’s patron saint. It was customary for them to hug a statue of St. James and even kiss…

On the anniversary of the day it was dedicated — the feast of the Queenship of Mary — Mary, Queen of the Universe Shrine near Orlando became, officially, a basilica. From the Orlando Sentinel: It wasn’t a new gut-gripping ride that attracted the visitors and locals to Orlando’s tourist corridor Saturday. Rather, they flocked to…
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