Apostles" and in the "Nicene - Constantinopolitan Creed", the two great affirmations of the Christian faith, used throughout Christendom. As St Gregory of Nazianzus (330-390) writes, Mary has become a model [...] and questions stirring over the virginity of Jesus’ mother. Referring to the doubts and a lack of Faith by some who called Mary’s saintliness into question, "the birth of Christ is a real event, of the [...] already used in the most ancient reference texts of the Tradition: We find it in the second Symbol of Faith of St Epiphanus, in 374 . In connection with the Incarnation: the Son of God "was incarnate, that

sin, is a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful. Menu: Dogma of the Immaculate Conception Dogma of the Immaculate Conception: A Sense of Wonder

permission of the ruling bishops; this is the way that Marian devotion, so important in the Catholic faith and well explained by the Second Vatican Council at the summit of the Constitution on the Church, [...] can take root and flourish. " In this singular way [Mary] cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope and burning charity in the work of the Savior in giving back supernatural life to souls. Wherefore she

Montenegro. A nation indefectibly faithful to Mary Today, since October 8, 1991, Croatia is an independent Republic. In the course of its history, Catholic Croatia kept the faith during the schism of Photius [...] that cultural and religious crossroads of the Balkans, the Croats remained indefectibly faithful to their Catholic faith. The Croats' deep devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of its most ancient ch

turn, proclaimed their independence, which triggered a three-year war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Faith relected in Icons From an artistic point of view, the icons of Ohrid and the iconostasis Catholikos

unworthy or bitterly ungrateful. 5. Faith, Sincerity, Trust Last but not least, among the fruits of the Holy Spirit concerning man’s relations with his neighbor, is faith in the sense of sincerity or honesty

that their faith and their rites little resembled the faith and rites of the Catholic Church. Some accepted nevertheless to let themselves be guided by her. What an admirable walk of faith and humility [...] Latin at the time). In spite of all, a few families were able to transmit the faith, or at least some aspects of the Christian faith, somewhat altering its contents. And then one day, surprisingly enough these [...] A few decades later, the Catholic Church had become strong throughout the land, counting 150,000 faithful Christians out of a population of about 20 million, with the support of the mighty Oda Nobunaga

currently divided into four jurisdictions: The Catholicate of Etchmiadzin has about two million faithful. The traditional title of its leader or catholicos is the "Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of all [...] Catholicate of Cilicia, whose see is located in Antelias, Lebanon, since 1921. It has about 11,200,000 faithful. The current Catholicos, His Holiness Aram I Keshishian, has played a major role in the worldwide [...] The Patriarchate of Jerusalem, with jurisdiction over Palestine and Jordania, has about 10,000 faithful. The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem is one of the three custodes of the Holy Land, along with

in this region: from 1801 to 1831, the Church of Korea, composed of 10,000 faithful, remained without priests and kept the faith through devotion to Mary; between 1839 and 1846, 6,000 Catholics died as martyrs [...] Rosary, scapulars, and medals to help them hold on to their faith. In North Korea, the atheistic regime discourages Marian shrines. But faith in God is alive and heroic. In the midst of the communist occupation [...] "For 23 years the faithful have been meeting every Tuesday in Seoul Cathedral to pray to the Blessed Virgin to intercede for reunification," said Bishop Alfred Xuereb, the new nuncio in South Korea and

enter the sphere of our understanding the treasure of the Faith, contributing to enhance the vision we have of the source and basis of our faith. This list of unequal importance is completed by highlighting [...] Mary or Joseph's life since the Bible tells us next to nothing about Jesus' s parents. Certainly the Faith of the Church and its ensuing piety are enlighten by the Sacred Scriptures, one of the privileged [...] knowing the Truth, on the condition that one interprets the texts correctly, in the analogy of the Faith and with the help of the Church (Acts 8: 31). But Church History proves that the Holy Spirit uses