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 ...

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 conception of ...

Because the first Archbishop of New York witnessed the public definition 76 years ago of the Roman Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception, the present Archbishop of New York last week presided ...

On Dec. 8, 1854, Blessed Pius IX released Ineffabilis Deus in which he defined and proclaimed that the Blessed Virgin Mary “in the first instance of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace ...

Pope Francis celebrated Mass with the College of Cardinals in St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, marking the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception and concluding a historic week in which 21 new ...