In the past, the obligation to attend Mass on a transferred holy day of obligation was not transferred along with the feast day when it fell on a Monday. A firefighter in Rome pays tribute to the ...

This year’s Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception was especially confusing. No, I am not referring to the widespread (?) misunderstanding that the day celebrates the conception of the infant Jesus.

The Immaculate Conception—the conception of Mary in the womb of St. Ann without the stain of Original Sin—and the Last Supper both anticipate and participate in the historical events of the Cross and ...

Mosaic tiles depicting the Immaculate Conception and various saints are seen in the Trinity Dome at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. The feast of the ...

WELLSVILLE – The Celebration Mass of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception at Immaculate Conception Church in Wellsville Monday morning was a bitter sweet occasion for many in attendance. It was the ...

CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Blase Cupich has dispensed the Catholics of the Chicago archdiocese from the obligation to attend Mass on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, which will be celebrated ...