Very Rev. Mark Morozowich, dean, theology, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article on the pope’s trip to Fatima for the 100th anniversary of the apparition of Mary.
... Fatima, one of the most popular pilgrimage sites in the Catholic Church, regularly draws about four million devotees a year, underscoring the power of apparitions of Mary as an inspiration to popular piety.
As the mother of Jesus, Mary is a “more approachable” devotional figure than her son, with whom she intercedes on behalf of the faithful, says the Rev. Mark Morozowich, dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. ...
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