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 ...

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 ...

Dec. 8, 1854, was a banner day for the Church. On it, Pope Pius IX declared the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. Because of this major event for the universal Church, I couldn’t help but think that ...

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 ...