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 ...

In the Latin rite of the Catholic Church, Dec. 8 is the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, but this year it was moved to Monday the 9th to avoid a conflict with the Second Sunday of Advent.

You don’t have to be Catholic to have heard the phrase “Immaculate Conception.” References often appear in pop culture and even politics. In the first season of the TV show “Glee,” the character Puck ...

This year, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, which is a holy day of obligation, falls on the Second Sunday of Advent. So, are Catholics obligated to go to Mass twice? The answer is yes. The ...

The Immaculate Conception is "one of the wonders of the story of salvation," Pope Francis said in his Angelus address Tuesday. Speaking from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square Dec. 8, the ...

While the St. Joseph Mission at Ahtanum was the first church in the Yakima Valley, it wasn’t the first on Yakama land. Five years prior to St. Joseph’s establishment, missionaries from the Missionary ...

The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver held Ash Wednesday services on March 5, 2025. Ash Wednesday is a holy day of prayer and fasting in many Western Christian denominations.

Beth Ferrannini, the pastoral associate for Immaculate Conception Church, holds the plans for the new church interior as Mary K. Rasmus, parish life coordinator of the Battenkill Network of Roman ...

St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church in Wooster is inviting lapsed Catholics to reconnect with their faith through ...

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 ...