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 ...

Dancers from the Chinese Catholic Community of New Jersey participate in the call to prayer featuring sacred songs and ...

May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary are a series of Marian devotions ... Crowds flocked to the area for the Immaculate Conception that December. In 1985, a local teenager, Ursula O’Rourke ...

Gregory leads a special liturgy in renewing the consecration of the U.S. to the care of our Blessed Mother at the Basilica ... of the U.S., consecrated the country to Mary under the title of the ...

A national shrine was designated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2016, making it the only national ...

Devotees flock to the Manila Cathedral in observance of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception ... Filipino Catholics to emulate the Blessed Virgin Mary “by serving others with compassion ...

THE Immaculate Conception Parish of Oslob, southern Cebu, has officially become an affiliate church of the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome. The annou ...

The Immaculate ... Mary Major in Rome. This esteemed designation establishes a special bond of affinity between the parish and the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major, dedicated to the Blessed ...

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 ...