“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since folks seemed to benefit from the recent series I did on the Perpetual Virginity of Mary, I decided I would follow it up with another series leading up to the next big Marian feast, the ...

The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception teaches that Mary, the mother of Christ, was conceived without sin. The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception teaches that Mary, the mother of Christ, was ...

The story behind the U.S. bishops consecrating the United States of America under the title of the Immaculate Conception in ...

Every year in March, tens of thousands of Americans take to the streets – and bars – to celebrate St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. Similarly, Mexican Americans celebrate the Feast of Our Lady ...

Believers persevere to honor Kaskaskia’s role as explorer outpost, Revolution battleground, state capital and Mississippi ...