"I offer Catholic Mass,' cause I'm a Catholic priest by profession,and so it is actually the feast day of Mary,Mother of God.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

And so we begin our Catholic way of understanding new year by just thanking God for Jesus' mother,Mary.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

The faith's official theology, after wrestling with the different senses in which Christ was human and divine, had crystallised with the pronouncement in the early fifth century that Mary was Theotokos, the Mother of God: the person whose body was the miraculous locus of a unique cosmic event, the coming together of the Creator and the created, physical world.

ECONOMIST: Virgin Mary