The term “interesting” is inadequate to describe the phenomenon of Christmas celebrations around the world. More than 160 of ...

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The cloak of Martin is a symbol of the Church’s teaching on care for the poor, not only at Christmas time, but every day. It ...

Born into poverty in Manchester, England, Lee grew up illiterate. She eventually joined an English religious sect that ...

As I was looking for some words of wisdom to write about Christmas, I came across this column written by Baxter Black on Dec.

The patient perseverance, the waiting and longing, of these friends in Matanzas is an Advent parable, Ken Sehested says.

The actual man whom our modern Santa is based on, was St. Nicholas of Myra, sometimes called Nicholas the Wonderworker. The actual St. Nicholas is said to have been born to an affluent Greek-speaking ...

How the young and wealthy Francis of Assisi freely abandoned his noble patrimony to serve Christ’s Church as a poor, ...

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For the fourth time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we are celebrating the Word of God becoming flesh as angels ...

In an unremarkable corner of Austria, and a little Christmas poem the very young Father Joseph Mohr had written two years ...

St. Francis’ meditations on the life of Christ led him to create the first-ever Nativity scene in Greccio, Italy, in 1223.