Our Lady knows exactly what it is like to stand by and see someone you love suffer and die. But Our Lady also knew that, somehow, God was with her in that time of grief. But we could well ask: Where was God yesterday in Paris?

“Young people who are seeking or questioning their future can find Mary to be the one who helps them discern God’s plan for them and find the strength to follow it.”

If, so often, the sad fate of women is to bear what men have wrought, Mary does this like no other.

The vigil Mass on Saturday evening is not a "two-for-one" Mass for both days.

Miracles surround us; burning bushes keep revealing the Lord’s work. But we need to stop and notice.

Is it conceit or coincidence that a saint who was conceived without sin is the patron of a country that believes the same about itself?