Pope Francis marked the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception with a spiritual journey across Rome on Sunday, beginning at the Basilica of St. Mary Major and continuing to the Spanish Steps — where ...

This year is the 170th anniversary of the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX in his encyclical Ineffabilis Deus (1854), which declared that the Virgin Mary, “from ...

In the Latin rite of the Catholic Church, Dec. 8 is the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, but this year it was moved to Monday the 9th to avoid a conflict with the Second Sunday of Advent.

For the second year in a row, Pope Francis has canceled the Roman tradition of a public gathering at the Spanish Steps on Dec. 8 to venerate a statue of the Immaculate Conception due to the COVID-19 ...

For one final time, the halls of Immaculate Conception High School were filled. They were crowded with faculty, staff and students. There were also alumni, including those who may not have walked ...

President Biden made an early morning trip to church Wednesday to mark the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception ahead of an afternoon flight to Kansas City to push his spending agenda. Biden ...

The Feast of the Immaculate Conception takes place on December 8, and is a day that celebrates the Virgin Mary during Advent, the season leading up to the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas. The Virgin ...

SOMERVILLE - Because of the order's other commitments, the nuns who have been part of the Immaculate Conception and Immaculata High School community for more than a half century have been reassigned ...

In 2015, Pope Francis appointed Bevins a Prelate of Honor of His Holiness, bestowing on him the title of monsignor.

Long since drained of parishioners, Burlington's Immaculate Conception Church on Pine Street will be sold, with the proceeds going to nearby St. Joseph's Parish, a church official said Thursday. St.

FALL RIVER — A solitary mourner stood outside the front steps of Immaculate Conception Church Monday morning. Donald Sirois has lived all 69 years of his life on Thomas Street, just a few doors down ...

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