Read a Dec. 12, 2007, New York Times story about the growing popularity of a theatrical version of the Guadalupe story that is playing beyond the Los Angeles cathedral where it began in 2002.

See the entry on the Virgin Mary in the Encyclopedia of Religion and Society, edited by William H. Swatos Jr.

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

See a Beliefnet page on Mary.

The Ecumenical Miracle Rosary was created in 1999 by a Lutheran layman, Dennis Di Mauro, who discovered the Catholic rosary while attending a spirituality group with his wife, a Catholic. DiMauro liked the prayer but not some of the traditional Marian doctrines. So he created his own version, replacing scriptural elements for some passages, and it has […]

The “All About Mary” page at the University of Dayton in Ohio, a Marianist Catholic college, is the portal to the Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute, one of the largest collections of resources on the Virgin Mary in the world.

Jay Marshall wrote Thanking and Blessing: The Sacred Art. He is dean of the Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Ind., and a Quaker minister.

Barbara J. McClure is an associate professor of pastoral theology at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. Her interests include human flourishing and spiritual formation, and she has worked as a pastoral counselor. She can speak to the idea of gratitude and human flourishing.

David Steindl-Rast is a Benedictine brother and a senior member of the Benedictine community at Mount Savior in Elmira, N.Y. He is the author or co-author of five books, including Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness. He is a member of A Network for Grateful Living, which maintains the Web site Gratefulness.org. He […]