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 ...

Santa Barbara captain Jerry Boylan, who faces four years in prison for the deaths of 34 aboard his boat, asks for a rehearing ...

For many, the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception is the hardest to believe of all the Church’s teachings. The idea of Mary having been completely sinless can be hard to believe and even ...

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The captain of the Conception dive boat, where a 2019 fire off the Channel Islands killed 34 people, has lost his latest bid ...

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