Nine months before the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (8 September), the Church celebrates the Solemnity of ...

Catholics will observe the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 8. What does this feast day celebrate? While the day does involve Jesus, the feast day is about Mary. Many people think ...

INTERVIEW: Director-producer Michal Kondrat, Marian expert Father Chris Alar and actress Maria Juzwin discuss new film about the Mother of God. Maria Juzwin as Mary in the new docudrama about the ...

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 ...

Every year in March, tens of thousands of Americans take to the streets – and bars – to celebrate St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. Similarly, Mexican Americans celebrate the Feast of Our Lady ...

December 8 marks the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. It is a holy day of obligation, and marks the patronal feast of the United States. The feast celebrates Mary having no original sin from ...

Mary did not need to be immaculate from her conception, in order to preserve Christ from the original sin, because the original sin is transmitted by the man, not by the woman. You’re absolutely ...

(RNS) — On April 15, 2019, as the world looked on in stunned sadness as flames engulfed the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, I found myself realizing how much I connected this cornerstone of Western ...

A Reflection for the Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary “The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth ...

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 ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. But did you know that the U.S. has its own patron saint? Nearly 200 years ago, ...