null Detail of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, ‘The Immaculate Conception,’ c. 1678 Mary, under her title of the Immaculate Conception, has been patroness of the United States since the mid-19th...

Daniel Ibáñez An Italian firefighter places a wreath of flowers on the statue of the Immaculate Conception in Rome’s Piazza di Spagna on Dec. 8. The Pope made the private visit shortly...

Screenshot The 12-pointed star of the Sagrada Família Basilica’s Tower of the Virgin Mary is lit up for the first time. “May this star that shines from today enlighten you so that, as you...

Eberhard Grossgasteiger. The flag of Switzerland. By approving an independent study, Swiss Catholic leaders are following the Church in France, which commissioned a landmark report...