The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph ...

This is the Daily Gospel for Monday, December 8, 2025, which is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. READ MORE: Daily Gospel, December 7, 2025 Daily Gospel, December 6, 2025 ...

Nor can we observe Advent without the Blessed Mother. “Among creatures, no one knows Christ better than Mary; no one can ...

POPE Leo XIV visited the tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf at the Monastery of Saint Maron in Annaya, Lebanon on 1 December as ...

Most of Updike’s letters in 1952, when the author was 20, are either telling his parents about Mary Pennington, his new ...

One year after the reopening of Notre Dame de Paris, Marseille's Basilica of Notre Dame de la Garde is preparing to celebrate ...

The die was cast for Mary Queen of Scots on May 16th 1568 when she crossed the Solway into England a few days after the ...

Wesley’s 1739 hymn contains some choice lyrics, including “Rise, the woman’s conqu’ring Seed, Bruise in us the serpent’s head ...

Actor Ellen Burstyn is 93. Country singer Gary Morris is 77. Singer Tom Waits is 76. Actor Priscilla Barnes (“Jane the Virgin,” “Three’s Company”) is 68. Bassist Tim Butler of ...

Judge Gwendolyn Goeke will decide whether the teen, who faces a first-degree murder charge, should be tried as an adult in ...

What truth does the church convey about the Immaculate Conception? That Mary of Nazareth, who would become the ever-virgin ...

Even after nearly 2,000 years, we still have trouble fully appreciating the church's teaching about the conception of Mary.