And today we celebrate the feast that made her so: the Immaculate Conception. Contrary to what today’s annunciation reading might suggest, the one who was immaculately conceived is Mary, meaning ...

Students, faculty and guests at Archbishop Rummel High School celebrated the Feast of the Immaculate Conception during the second week in Advent. This year, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception ...

Pope Francis celebrates the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception with the city of Rome on Dec. 8, 2023. Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA. Before venerating the statue of the Immaculate Conception, Pope ...

Text of the consecration to the Immaculate Conception prayed by Spain on the day of its patron saint, Dec. 8, 2023. Credit: ACI Prensa “Bless our families and protect our homeland, the cradle of ...

A Homily for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Readings: Genesis 3:9-15, 20 Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12 Luke 1:26-38 Jon Fosse was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in ...

Devotees flock to the Manila Cathedral in observance of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 2020. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/File MANILA -- President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos ...

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 ...

The feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary is widely celebrated in Central America. But it has special significance in Nicaragua, where it is known as La Purísima and is observed with a novena.

Speaking in his Angelus address on Dec. 8 to mark the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Pope shared that the Church’s first children’s day will be ...