In proclaiming the Immaculate Conception of Mary as a dogma of the Church, the pope expressed precisely and clearly that Mary was conceived free from the stain of original sin. This privilege of ...

Visit the homepage for more information. – Brother John M. Samaha, S.M. The feast of Mary's Immaculate Conception is celebrated on December 8, and honors the conception of Mary in her mother's womb ...

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 ...

On the day of the Immaculate Conception, we remember the birth of the Virgin Mary, who was free from sin and guilt from her conception to her death. According to Catholic tradition, it's an ideal ...

Several Sisters of Christian Charity play hand bells, contributing their musical talents to the final Mass at St. Mary’s Church of the Immaculate Conception on Sunday. Dressed in their regalia ...

In the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries emblems were an important visual vehicle to express some of Mary's virtues and privileges, in particular that of the Immaculate Conception. The emblem is a symbol ...