“It’s not made any easier by the fact that the Gospel reading on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is the story of ...

Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, one of the most misunderstood Catholic dogmas not believed by Protestants. It is frequently assumed this is about the conception of Jesus. Not so, that ...

What truth does the church convey about the Immaculate Conception? That Mary of Nazareth, who would become the ever-virgin mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was preserved from every stain of ...

Here is the lesser-known third verse of the Christmas carol “Joy to the World,” which Isaac Watts penned in 1719: No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make his ...

President Donald Trump honored the feast of the Immaculate Conception, which appears to be the first time a U.S. president formally recognized the holy day.

December 8 is a special nonworking holiday in the Philippines, following a law signed by former president Rodrigo Duterte on December 28, 2017 ...

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks next alongside a Christmas tree during an event at the White House in Washington Dec. 5, 2025. Trump issued a Dec. 8 statement marking the feast of the Immaculate ...

In the past, the obligation to attend Mass on a transferred holy day of obligation was not transferred along with the feast day when it fell on a Monday. A firefighter in Rome pays tribute to the ...

This year the Catholic Church is living between two great Jubilees of St. Thomas Aquinas — the 750th of his death (1274) and the 800th of his birth (1225). His philosophical and theological works are ...

To put it bluntly, what Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception reminds us of is that, like Our Lady who is our Mother, we are supposed to be immaculate and sinless from our very own conception all the way ...