Tag: Christmas

INDIANAPOLIS — During the Christmas season, we expect to hear and sing carols at Mass as an expression of joy in the birth of...

VATICAN CITY -- The image of baby Jesus nestled in the manger is a much-needed reminder during the pandemic that God gives the world...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis will celebrate the Vatican's traditional Christmas "Mass during the Night" Dec. 24, but will begin the liturgy at 7:30...

By Brian T. Olszewski, editor The Catholic Virginian Diocese of Richmond During the early '80s, when I moonlighted as a disc jockey at a country music station...

JERUSALEM-- Walk down St. Peter Street from the Old City's New Gate, past some shuttered shops and the closed Knight's Palace hotel, continue down...

TRAFALGAR, Ind. — Alena Beckwith may be only 7 years old, but she is already helping with the family business and evangelizing others in...

The 19th-century English poet Christina Rossetti had never heard of COVID-19, climate change or many of the woes that beset us in the bleak...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- As the Christmas approaches, Franciscan Father Rami Asakrieh of St. Catherine Parish said he has been overwhelmed with requests for...

I usually look unfavorably at anyone who lays guilt trips on me that are a form of covert force that goes against the grain...

In Spring 2015, I attended an exhibition on the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. It was a...