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 ...

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 ...

The Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of the “Immaculate Conception,” is patroness of the United States. She was proclaimed unanimously on May 13, 1846, by the Catholic bishops of the United States ...

The dogma of the Immaculate Conception is “key to everything,” according to Father Chris Alar, MIC, provincial superior of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Mercy Province of the Marian Fathers of ...

In terms of mission, spirituality and campus geography, the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception has been the heart of the UD community since it was built in 1869. We invite you to seek out the chapel ...

“Immaculate” is not a word most people would use to describe the Mississippi River’s famously muddy waters. But Father Jacques Marquette was not most people. The Jesuit explorer, who came from France ...