In proclaiming the Immaculate Conception of Mary as a dogma of the Church, the pope expressed precisely and clearly that Mary was conceived free from ... of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a model ...

That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854: "The most Blessed ... word of the serpent, brought forth disobedience and death. But the Virgin ...

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This year is the 170th anniversary of the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX in his encyclical Ineffabilis Deus (1854), which declared that the Virgin Mary ...

9. The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary is a holy day of obligation that is celebrated each year on Dec. 8 to commemorate the fact that Mary was preserved from ...

FOR most people, even the four-fifths of Filipinos who are Catholic, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, merits a shrug or less amid the Christmas rush. Also, ...

Virginia (Liberia), Dec 12: The feast of the Immaculate Conception celebrates the solemn belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary ... Society of Divine Word, the FMM Sisters, the ...

The celebration of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, a holy day of obligation, celebrates the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary without original sin. Archdiocesan Liturgical Commission ...

Leonardo’s mysterious painting shows the Virgin ... Immaculate Conception, which emerged in the twelfth century, was highly controversial but championed by the Franciscans. The idea was important ...

And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a Virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the Virgin's name was ...

The U.S. bishops designated the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington as a special pilgrimage site for the ... Walter Rossi said he was “grateful to the ...

The celebration of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, a holy day of obligation, celebrates the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary without original sin. Archdiocesan Liturgical ...