Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of many Marian devotions popular among Hispanic Catholics, who make up a large share of the Catholic population in the U.S. — 36% in 2025, up from 29% in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center.
Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of many Marian devotions popular among Hispanic Catholics, who make up a large share of the Catholic population in the U.S. — 36% in 2025, up from 29% in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center.
Displaying Our Lady of Guadalupe on nails has become increasingly popular among Latina Catholics — something experts say can become a tool for evangelization, provided it comes from a place of prayer and reflection.
Torchbearers fanned out across Brooklyn and Queens on Tuesday, Dec. 12, holding their flames aloft for all to see as they walked along the streets. But they weren’t Olympic torchbearers. Instead, they hailed from dozens of churches across the two boroughs as part of the Diocese of Brooklyn’s celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
An arson attack at a beloved Marian shrine in Illinois has left a community “deeply wounded,” the shrine’s rector told OSV News May 26.
Jockey David Cabrera has had a special devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe since he was a child.
Holy water fonts have remained dry since churches in Brooklyn and Queens reopened on May 26, due to health and safety measures. However, companies and entrepreneurs have gotten creative while expressing their faith by building touch-free holy water font dispensers.
With a helping hand from the Knights of Columbus, the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Solace dedicated a new statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe in a ceremony on Dec. 12. The previous statue was seriously damaged by a vandal who toppled it from its perch and threw it to the ground on Sept. 11,
The NYPD has arrested a man accused of smashing a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe on the property of Shrine Church of Our Lady of Solace last month.
The Knights of Columbus has donated $10,000 to the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Solace in the wake of an act of vandalism in which a man toppled a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe and threw it to the sidewalk.
With much of Latin America in the throes of months of social and political unrest, the continent’s bishops have turned to the “Empress of the Americas” to lend a hand in the effort for peace.