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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than a century after its founding, a local Catholic school is set to close. Immaculate Conception Cathedral School, the parish school of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Midtown, is ...