The purity and holiness of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a model for all Christians. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says of the Immaculate Conception of Mary: 490. To become the mother of the ...

That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854: The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace ...

In Geneva, the main Roman Catholic church is the minor Basilica Notre-Dame, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

At Washington’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, carillonneur Robert Grogan has filled the sky ...

Pope Francis died Monday, history's first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for ...

These include the baroque-style Immaculate Conception parish church in Jasaan town built in 1887, which was declared a national cultural treasure in 2001. A museum beside the church houses century ...

Hundreds of Catholic devotees took part in the Black Saturday ritual through prayers, songs, and the reaffirmation of their ...

Acolytes lead a procession during a Holy Saturday Mass on the evening before Easter at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception ... before a statue of the Virgin Mary in the Cathedral’s ...

Many travelers experienced a similar reaction at the Monastery of San Jeronimo, the first temple in the world dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. The attraction is more ...

The month of May has historically been associated with motherhood, particularly in the Christian tradition that venerates the Virgin Mary. In 1854, Pope Pius IX moved the “Immaculate Conception ...