SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Mary Burgen still remembers how 48 years ago she could only stand and listen as the bad news of her son's death in Vietnam washed over.

On that January night in 1969, Mary Langhorn did not know she would soon become the only woman in Suffolk County history whose son was granted the Medal of Honor for valor during the Vietnam War.

A church-run exhibition of images of Vietnamese women and Mother Mary aims to inspire visitors with motherly love. Some 80 paintings and sculptures by 56 Catholic and non-Catholic artists were on ...

Mary "Betty" Foley — a mother who raised five children after her husband Lt. Col. Brendan Foley, an Air Force pilot, disappeared over Laos in 1967 — died Thursday, according to her obituary ...

Catholics in Vietnam’s capital have been urged to follow Mother Mary's examples in trusting in God and doing charitable work. On July 2, Archbishop Joseph Vu Van Thien of Hanoi presided at a special ...

Instead of breakfast in bed or bouquets of flowers, dozens of people—many of them children with their mothers—spent Mother's Day at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, carefully washing the names ...

Left: Diem Pham (left) with her mother, Mary Pham, at the beach in Vietnam in 1974. Right: Diem Pham (right) with her daughter, 4-year-old Sarah Pham, at a family wedding in 2006.

The Marian site, deeply rooted in popular devotion, commemorates an apparition of the Virgin Mary that occurred 140 years ago, when, according to local tradition, the Mother of God appeared to console ...