If I were still living at home I would be going to church today: it's a Holy Day of Obligation.
It took a while for some kids to get it once we learned about the facts of life. "If Jesus was born in December," they argued, "how could Mary get pregnant with him in the same month? Was she pregnant a year?"
The Immaculate Conception has nothing to do with Jesus. It is rather the Virgin Mary who was immaculately conceived without sin in order to be the mother of Jesus.
Here's the doctrine from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
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