Read a July 13, 2007, U.S. Catholic story about Catholics and online dating.

Read the statement on the Virgin Mary from Evangelicals and Catholics Together, published in November 2009 in First Things.

Mark Miravalle is a professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio. Miravalle was at the forefront of a push in the 1990s to have the Catholic Church name Mary as “co-redemptrix,” or a co-redeemer, with Jesus, as well as a singular mediator between God and men and women. The campaign was controversial […]

The Rev. Johann G. Roten, an internationally recognized expert on Mary, is director of research and special projects for the Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute at the University of Dayton, a Marianist Catholic college in Ohio. The library has one of the largest collections of resources on the Virgin Mary in the world, and it […]

Kristy Nabhan-Warren is a professor of religion at the University of Iowa. She has written widely on the role of the Virgin Mary in Latino cultures. Her research focuses on Catholic studies. She is the author of Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland.

Read a Dec. 3, 2007, Los Angeles Times story about the growing appeal of the patroness of Mexico.

See the entry on the Virgin Mary in the 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia.

The National Apostolate for Inclusion Ministry in Landover Hills, Md., promotes inclusion of people with intellectual or developmental disabilities in the life of the Catholic Church.

The National Catholic Partnership on Disability has diocesan and archdiocesan affiliate members. Janice Benton is executive director.