In part 2 of this series, we saw that the Mater Populi Fidelis (MPF) document declares that Mary was “the first to be ...

“It’s not made any easier by the fact that the Gospel reading on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is the story of ...

Here is the lesser-known third verse of the Christmas carol “Joy to the World,” which Isaac Watts penned in 1719: No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make his ...

While the dogma of the Immaculate Conception would not be proclaimed until 1854, the Church in Spain had long venerated Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception. In 1585, a miracle attributed to the ...

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is the largest Roman Catholic Church in the United States. Located in Washington D.C., the Minor basilica is one of the ten largest ...

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 ...

December 8 is a special nonworking holiday in the Philippines, following a law signed by former president Rodrigo Duterte on December 28, 2017 ...

“Immaculate” is not a word most people would use to describe the Mississippi River’s famously muddy waters. But Father Jacques Marquette was not most people. The Jesuit explorer, who came from France ...

MANILA Archbishop Cardinal Jose Advincula will lead the Fiesta Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception at the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros on Monday.