Vandals have beheaded a sculpture featuring the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus. The artwork had been exhibited in the cathedral in the Austrian city of Linz and drawn criticism from some ...

The feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated each year on the eighth of September. Usually it is the custom of the church to celebrate the feast day of a saint on the date of ...

499 The deepening of faith in the virginal motherhood led the Church to confess Mary's real and perpetual virginity even in the act of giving birth to ... the "Ever-virgin". 156 500 Against ...