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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

“Let us pause for a moment to contemplate Mary’s beauty in the light of the Word of God,” he said in his homily in reference to Mary’s "immaculate conception", whose solemnity is ...

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