As the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosanctum Concilium, 10) from Vatican II says, "the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; it is also the fount from ...

The Virgin Mary’s birthday falls on September 8, having been conceived in the womb of St. Anne exactly nine months before December 8, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. What the Catholic ...

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 ...

490 To become the mother of the Savior, Mary "was enriched by God with gifts appropriate to such a role." 132 The angel Gabriel at the moment of the annunciation salutes her as "full of grace ...

At nation’s largest Catholic Church, honoring ‘the pope of the people’ Mourners young and old flocked to Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Northeast D.C.

Because the first Archbishop of New York witnessed the public definition 76 years ago of the Roman Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception, the present Archbishop of New York last week ...