In 1998, during a pilgrimage to venerate the Holy Shroud in Turin, Italy, our pilgrimage also went to Milan. Among the sites we visited was the Sanctuary of Maria Santissima Bambina – the miraculous ...

My grade school (which I’ve mentioned in previous Scripture reflections) had an Advent/Christmas concert of sorts called the Service of Lights. It began with one student singing “O Come, O Come, ...

This year the Catholic Church is living between two great Jubilees of St. Thomas Aquinas — the 750th of his death (1274) and the 800th of his birth (1225). His philosophical and theological works are ...

The Feast of the Immaculate Conception takes place on December 8, and is a day that celebrates the Virgin Mary during Advent, the season leading up to the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas. The Virgin ...

With Our Lady's Immaculate Conception, God was, even before Mary's birth, putting into motion his plan of salvation for the world, Pope Francis said Sunday. "Today we consider the beginning of this ...

The Immaculate Conception is "one of the wonders of the story of salvation," Pope Francis said in his Angelus address Tuesday. Speaking from a window overlooking St. Peter's Square Dec. 8, the ...

Nearly six years ago, a parish started by black Catholics in the 1940s merged with a Catholic church founded by German settlers in the 1840s. Now, that Erie congregation will merge with a ...

Just over two weeks before celebrating the birth of Jesus, Catholics will celebrate Thursday God enabling Jesus’ mother Mary to be conceived free of sin. The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is a ...