Mary's conception, free from original sin, shows that the destiny of humanity lies in life, brotherhood, harmony and peace rather than death, hate, conflict and war, Pope Francis said on the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
"Your person, the fact that you exist,
The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment of her conception. It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Pope Bl. Pius IX proclaimed
When Priscilla Christine describes what drew her to the Catholic faith, she first points to the Rosary. “I remember the first time I heard it,” the founder of The Little Catholic, an online rosary and jewelry shop, describes on her podcast. “Because
Pope Francis asked Catholics around the world to join him in entrusting to Mary "the universal desire for peace, especially for the martyred Ukraine, which is suffering so much."
Reciting the Angelus prayer at midday Dec. 8, the feast of the Immaculate Conception,
An hour before sunrise, Pope Francis set a basket of white roses at the base of a statue of the Immaculate Conception in the center of Rome, praying Mary would help all who suffer.
"While it was still night," the Vatican press office
Despite the fact that the belief in Mary’s immaculate conception has been a dogma since 1854, many people still don’t understand what it means. Maybe it’s because it took so long for the Church to fully understand this teaching. In a recent
Mary's Immaculate Conception offers a glimpse to the promised life for all Christians who open their hearts to God and his grace, Pope Francis said.
Addressing pilgrims in St. Peter's Square on the feast of the Immaculate Conception Dec. 8, the pope said
Pope Francis on Sunday joined thousands of people near the Spanish Steps in central Rome to pay homage to the Immaculate Conception at a Marian statue atop a tall column. The statue was erected in 1857 to commemorate Pope Pius IX’s declaration
Question: I recently read that St. Thomas Aquinas was among those opposed to the Immaculate Conception. How do we square his status as one of the great minds of the Church with this now being an infallibly defined dogma? — Dick Jones,