Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, In just a few weeks, the church throughout the world will celebrate the solemnity of the ...

491 Through the centuries the Church has become ever more ... 134 was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius ...

Archbishop Nelson Pérez has granted a dispensation from the holy day of obligation since it falls this year on Dec. 8, a ...

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 ...

Celebration of the liturgy is the primary faith-formational activity of the Catholic Church. In and through the liturgy ... Since it was built in 1869, the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception has been ...

St. Mary of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church has been a staple of the Edgefield County community for 166 years, so in order to help with the church’s restoration efforts it will hold a ...

WILKES-BARRE — St. Mary’s Church of the Immaculate Conception, one of the oldest Catholic churches in Northeastern Pennsylvania and the first in Luzerne County, is slated to close in January.

David Prescott Talley, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Memphis, celebrated Mass with priests and deacons and about 100 faithful present at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Midtown. The ...

The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Dec. 8) is a holy day in the U.S. because it is under this title that the Mother of the Lord is our patroness -- it is now always ...

In the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern ... by all schools of theology. Many Catholic leaders and founders of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries promoted and expounded Mary's ...

Joseph Li, who was installed by China’s state-controlled Catholic church as an archbishop, visited the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the morning, public broadcaster RTHK said.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says of the Immaculate Conception of Mary: 490. To become the mother of the Savior, Mary "was enriched by God with gifts appropriate to such a role".