The U.S. bishops designated the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington as a special pilgrimage site for the 2025 Jubilee Year. A file photo shows spring flowers ...

Early Thursday, for areas North of Point Conception, don't be startled waking up to light showers. A weak trough of low pressure moves through the Central Coast late Wednesday into Thursday ...

The leaker claimed that they had accessed an alleged top secret UFO 'data retrieval program' known as 'Immaculate Constellation' — made famous this past November in a blockbuster public ...

The dogma of the Immaculate Conception is “key to everything,” according to Father Chris Alar, MIC, provincial superior of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Mercy Province of the Marian ...

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 Catechism of the Catholic Church repeats the original declaration of Pope Pius IX: The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege ...

And the angel departed from her. Reflection on the Crown Today we celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Normally this feast gets celebrated on 8 December. The 8th was ...

Pope Francis urged Catholics to treasure genuine relationships over money and comforts in a Eucharistic celebration of the Immaculate Conception at the St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on Sunday.

Pope Francis marked the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception with a spiritual journey across Rome on Sunday, beginning at the Basilica of St. Mary Major and continuing to the Spanish Steps ...

The Virgin Mary’s birthday falls on September 8, having been conceived in the womb of St. Anne exactly nine months before December 8, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. What the Catholic ...

FOR most people, even the four-fifths of Filipinos who are Catholic, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, merits a shrug or less amid the Christmas rush. Also, ...

Since it was the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Francis centered his homily on Mary, who is venerated worldwide by Christians “portraying her with the native features and characteristics of ...