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Today is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. But there are plenty of misconceptions about what this day is actually celebrating.

Not to be confused with another mysterious and miraculous event, the virgin birth of the Lord Jesus, the Immaculate Conception is about how God acted in an extraordinary way in the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, so that from even the first moment of her own conception, she was “preserved immune from all stain of original sin.”

By Julie Zauzmer Weil | The Washington Post

CHATHAM, Va. — The land came first, 5,557 acres of forest purchased two years after the Revolutionary War by a Virginia slaveholder and future congressman.

By Mark Zimmermann | Catholic News Service

ST. INIGOES, Md. (CNS) — When Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory blessed a parish cemetery’s memorial plaque honoring the unknown enslaved people buried there, Nov. 26, he noted the poignancy of his participation in the service at St. Peter Claver Parish in St. Inigoes.

Maura Roan McKeegan’s words, combined with Gina Capaldi’s watercolors, tell the story of Servant of God Julia Greeley, the former slave who became ‘Denver’s Angel of Mercy.’

By Jean Torkelson | National Catholic Register

By all odds, the life of Julia Greeley should have been lost to history. Born into slavery in the 1840s, she came into the world with no last name and few prospects, and by all accounts, was poor all her life. Yet today she qualifies as a true heroic figure — the kind of real-life hero that parents would be eager to introduce to their kids.