Just days after the death of Pope Francis and during the conclave that elected Leo XIV, a statue of the Virgin Mary — who ...

There, she prayed on her knees before a painting of the Virgin Mary, beseeching God for the grace to enter the Carmelite ...

More specifically, the dogma of the Immaculate Conception states "that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege from Almighty God ...