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 ...

Maria Juzwin as Mary in the new docudrama about the Immaculate Conception. (photo: Courtesy photo / Kondrat Media ) Joseph Pronechen Interviews December 10, 2024 I Am The Immaculate Conception is ...

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 ...

And the name he gave to this vital artery of North America was “The River of the Immaculate Conception.” The entrustment of this mighty waterway — one of the largest and most important ...

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.

Since it was built in 1869, the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception has been the focal point of the University of Dayton. In terms of mission, spirituality, and campus geography, the chapel marks the ...

On December 8, Sunday afternoon on the Immaculate Conception, Pope Francis pays homage to the Blessed Mother, praying before the icon Maria Salus Populi Romani at Saint Mary Major, followed by his ...

(OSV News photo/Edgard Garrido, Reuters) BUENOS AIRES (OSV News) — In a moving letter, Pope Francis expressed his closeness with the people of Nicaragua as Central American bishops called for a day of ...

"I am with you, especially in these days when you are celebrating the Novena of the Immaculate Conception," Francis wrote Dec. 2. "Precisely in the most difficult moments, when it becomes humanly ...

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 ...