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.

Pope Leo XIV led the Angelus prayer Dec. 8 from the window of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican on the occasion of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. “The Lord has granted to Mary the ...

Pope Francis announced Friday that the Catholic Church will celebrate its first World Day of Children in May 2024. Speaking in his Angelus address on Dec. 8 to mark the solemnity of the Immaculate ...

Oct. 21—On a beautiful, sunny fall day last Saturday, Newburyport's Immaculate Conception School — which houses grades K-8 — had a great showing at the Catholic Schools Cross Country League Regional ...

Conventual Franciscans said they will be present at a statue of the Immaculate Conception in the center of Rome to offer a "blessing from afar" to families who pass by on the feast day. Despite ...

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (CBS)-- Church is often called a sanctuary – in the sense of a place of worship. But for paradegoers the day of the July 4th massacre in Highland Park, one Roman Catholic church ...