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 ...

Take a moment and imagine the quiet life of one young Jewish woman who from all outward appearances seems to be rather ordinary. She is a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, and she is probably in ...

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 ...

The 8th of December is Italy’s Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a nationwide public holiday that quietly kicks off the Christmas season. Schools and public offices close, public transport runs on a ...

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 ...

Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz has been one of the most outspoken proponents of the idea that there is some sort of "Deep State" conspiracy within the government -- and the FBI, in particular -- ...

Christmas trees, ornaments, decorations and clothing, there’s a little bit of everything for everyone, and it is for a great ...