Catholics around the world — who are already observing the first week of the Advent season — mark the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Thursday, Dec. 8, a day that signifies the conception of ...

You don’t have to be Catholic to have heard the phrase “Immaculate Conception.” References often appear in pop culture and even politics. In the first season of the TV show “Glee,” the character Puck ...

Father Alar shared that the teaching on the Immaculate Conception is so important because 'Mary’s living proof that we can be holy and immaculate.' Father Chris Alar, MIC, provincial superior of the ...

You can find today’s readings here. Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” (Luke 26:38) A blank sheet of paper. Every person I know panics ...

This year is the 170th anniversary of the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX in his encyclical Ineffabilis Deus (1854), which declared that the Virgin Mary, “from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You don’t have to be Catholic to have heard the phrase “Immaculate Conception.” References often appear in pop culture and even ...