Holy Cross Father James Phalan, president of the Mariological Society of America and director of Family Rosary International, is pictured at a Marian conference in Rome Sept. 6. Father Phalan said that devotion to Mary “collapsed” in some parts of the United States after the Second Vatican Council even though council participants had upheld her critical place within the Catholic faith. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) (Sept. 7, 2012) See MARIAN-DEVOTION Sept. 7, 2012.