What truth does the church convey about the Immaculate Conception? That Mary of Nazareth, who would become the ever-virgin ...

Even after nearly 2,000 years, we still have trouble fully appreciating the church's teaching about the conception of Mary.

MOSCOW, Russia — More than 15 years before Our Lady of Fatima asked for the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, construction began in Moscow on a cathedral dedicated to the ...

Mary, under her title of the Immaculate Conception, has been patroness of the United States since the mid-19th century. But her protection of the nation dates back to its earliest history. One of the ...

Sex—how quaint, and increasingly needless, biologist and geneticist Prasad finds in this radical history of baby making. Shucking the “myths and assumptions... stained by the politics of gender,” the ...

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 ...

On the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pope Francis venerated a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary located atop a tall column near Rome’s Spanish Steps. Pope Francis ...