A Reflection for the Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary “The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth ...

INTERVIEW: Director-producer Michal Kondrat, Marian expert Father Chris Alar and actress Maria Juzwin discuss new film about the Mother of God. Maria Juzwin as Mary in the new docudrama about the ...

VATICAN CITY — With Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception, God was, even before Mary’s birth, putting into motion his plan of salvation for the world, Pope Francis said Sunday. “Today we consider the ...

On Thursday, Pope Francis publicly visited the statue dedicated to the Immaculate Conception near Rome’s Piazza di Spagna for the first time in two years. Marking the solemnity of the Immaculate ...

My grade school (which I’ve mentioned in previous Scripture reflections) had an Advent/Christmas concert of sorts called the Service of Lights. It began with one student singing “O Come, O Come, ...

We love and venerate the Blessed Virgin Mary because she is the Mother of Jesus, whom we believe to be God incarnate, true God and true man, the second person of the Blessed Trinity - Father, Son and ...

Pope Francis made an early morning visit on Wednesday to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in Rome’s Piazza di Spagna. The pope made the private visit shortly after 6 a.m. on Dec. 8, days after ...

Never Known to Fail. Oh, Most Beautiful Flower of Mt. Carmel, Fruitful Vine, Splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in my necessity. Oh Star of the Son, ...

Pope Francis announced Tuesday that he will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, fulfilling a 1917 vision purportedly revealed to Portuguese children that such a blessing ...

Those consecrated to Jesus through Mary seek to heighten prayerful recourse to Mary's motherly nurturing, advocacy and mediation for sanctification and the coming of God's Kingdom by inspiring fuller ...

A famous painting of the Immaculate Conception by baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo has become the newest in a long line of botched art restorations in Spain. Murillo's painting was reportedly ...