Catholics around the world — who are already observing the first week of the Advent season — mark the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Thursday, Dec. 8, a day that signifies the conception of ...
While the dogma of the Immaculate Conception would not be proclaimed until 1854, the Church in Spain had long venerated Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception. In 1585, a miracle attributed to the ...
“Immaculate” is not a word most people would use to describe the Mississippi River’s famously muddy waters. But Father Jacques Marquette was not most people. The Jesuit explorer, who came from France ...
Because the first Archbishop of New York witnessed the public definition 76 years ago of the Roman Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception, the present Archbishop of New York last week presided ...