There's a true story told about two missionaries who were visiting an orphanage in Russia. There were about a hundred boys and girls in the orphanage who had been abandoned, abused, and left in the ...

The Holy Father celebrated the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord with Mass during the night, held in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 24. Pope Francis gives his homily at Christmas Mass at St. Peter's ...

What does this night still have to say to our lives? Two thousand years after the birth of Jesus, after so many Christmases spent amid decorations and gifts, after so much consumerism that has ...

Neighborhoods sparkle with Christmas decorations. Retail businesses anticipate rising sales. Calendars rapidly fill with holiday parties. Children’s excitement grows in anticipation. Christmas is ...

Are Christmas carols coming to the end of their run? “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” has done rather well since Charles Wesley wrote it in 1739, but that was long before the “Age of Aquarius.” And love ...

Should churches ban carols with questionable theology? The U.S. Supreme Court recently refused to consider a challenge to a ban on religious carols in public schools. The decision underscored how ...

When I was a child, a few weeks before Christmas each year my family would gather with friends and neighbors at a nearby barn. The barn was home to gentle trail-ride horses, a Shetland pony known for ...