Monsignor Henry C. Gracz, pastor of the Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, ran an inclusive ministry and welcomed everyone to share in the love of Jesus Christ. It didn’t matter how much ...

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 ...

Atlanta's progressive Catholic community has been celebrating the memory of Msgr. Henry Gracz, an archdiocesan priest who championed the inclusion of Catholics of all stripes at downtown Atlanta's ...

Mary, under her title of the Immaculate Conception, has been patroness of the United States since the mid-19th century. But her protection of the nation dates back to its earliest history. One of the ...

The doors are sealed prior to the jubilee but are ceremoniously reopened by the Pope or a bishop around the start of the jubilee for pilgrims to walk through. A member of the maintenance crew at the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, DC) has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2015 Ceremony. The year ...

Father Alar shared that the teaching on the Immaculate Conception is so important because 'Mary’s living proof that we can be holy and immaculate.' Father Chris Alar, MIC, provincial superior of the ...