Even after nearly 2,000 years, we still have trouble fully appreciating the church's teaching about the conception of Mary.

What truth does the church convey about the Immaculate Conception? That Mary of Nazareth, who would become the ever-virgin ...

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 ...

The word “redemption” in regard to the Blessed Virgin Mary is found in two papal documents, the Apostolic Constitution, ...

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 ...

Monday, December 8th, marks Italy’s Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Here’s an idea of how shops, museums and transport ...

In the past, the obligation to attend Mass on a transferred holy day of obligation was not transferred along with the feast day when it fell on a Monday. A firefighter in Rome pays tribute to the ...

Just last year, Catholics were required to attend separate Masses two days in a row for the Sunday obligation and Monday's Christmas Mass. Now, they have a similar opportunity this year with the feast ...