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Hail Mary, full of grace: Why popes and other Catholics pray to the Virgin Mary

Posted 5/17/25

The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful. Pope Leo XIV closed the first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of …

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