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 ...

This year the Catholic Church is living between two great Jubilees of St. Thomas Aquinas — the 750th of his death (1274) and the 800th of his birth (1225). His philosophical and theological works are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mary, under her title of the Immaculate Conception, has been patroness of the United States since the mid-19th century. But her protection of the nation dates back to its earliest history. One of the ...

While the St. Joseph Mission at Ahtanum was the first church in the Yakima Valley, it wasn’t the first on Yakama land. Five years prior to St. Joseph’s establishment, missionaries from the Missionary ...

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