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The pastor for the Saint Pio Parish that includes Bloomfield, Garfield, Friendship and Lawrenceville has issued a final decision on a long-time building in a central neighborhood of the city.

The impact of Immaculate Conception Church goes back generations. The church first opened in 1905 and then closed in 2022. The building since has been vacant and is up for sale.

Confirmation: The sacrament will be celebrated in the parish at 5 p.m. Wednesday, May, 21, in Immaculate Conception Church. Bishop Joseph C. Bambera will be the celebrant.

The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver held Ash Wednesday services on March 5, 2025. Ash Wednesday is a holy day of prayer and fasting in many Western Christian denominations.

Immaculate Conception instead refers to Mary’s conception in the womb of her mother, St. Anne. The idea is that Mary was conceived without the stain of original sin, or born free from original sin.

Father Chris Alar, MIC, appears in the new Marian docudrama “I Am the Immaculate Conception,” to be released in theaters on Dec. 12, 14, and 17.

“The Immaculate Conception is the key to everything. Everything. And it’s the least understood of almost all Catholic teaching,” Alar said in an interview with CNA.

A view of St. Peter's Basilica during the Mass for the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, with Bernini's baldachin and the papal altar decorated with white flowers, Dec. 8, 2024.

FOR most people, even the four-fifths of Filipinos who are Catholic, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, merits a shrug or less amid the Christmas rush. Also, ...