“Que soy era Immaculada Concepciou.” I am the Immaculate Conception. In 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary spoke these hallowed words to Bernadette Soubirous, a teenager of 14 years old. Uneducated and ...

Pope Benedict XVI has authorized a plenary indulgence for anyone taking part in any public or private devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes during this anniversary of the Marian apparitions at Lourdes.

Linda Bersey grew up in a large Catholic family in West Orange as one of eight children with five sisters. Now 61 and living at the Jersey Shore, she was sent by her father, Thomas Collinson, to ...