VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has asked Catholics around the world to join him on Friday in consecrating all humanity, especially Russia and Ukraine, to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Pope Francis has invited Catholics to annually renew an act of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25. The solemnity of the Annunciation on Saturday marks one year since Pope Francis ...

GULF COAST (WKRG) — Pope Francis will hold a Worldwide Consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Friday, March 25, the Catholic solemnity of the Annunciation, at 11 a.m.

Ukraine’s Latin Rite Catholic bishops have asked Pope Francis to consecrate Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In a letter to the pope, the Ukrainian bishops said that they were ...

VENICE – The Most Rev. Frank J. Dewane, Bishop of the Diocese of Venice in Florida, will join Pope Francis in “a solemn Act of Consecration of humanity, and Russia and Ukraine in particular, to the ...

Pope Francis announced Tuesday that he will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, fulfilling a 1917 vision purportedly revealed to Portuguese children that such a blessing ...

Pope Francis has asked bishops around the world to join him March 25 in consecrating Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, something bishops in every part of the globe had started ...

At the same time that Pope Francis consecrated Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Rome, Bishop James F. Checchio joined in prayer during mass at the Cathedral of St. Francis of ...

At the end of his general audience on March 22, the Pope recalled his historic act of consecration and called on parish communities and prayer groups to annually renew the Marian consecration. Pope ...