Tag: Christmas

Religion and politics. The two subjects you're supposed to avoid in polite conversation. Except that the holiday season is when faith and family collide. Feasts...

Perhaps it's the compressed calendar, or the external decor that grabs our attention with "Celebrate the season!" Or, maybe it's the emphasis on reunions...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Annunciation -- the Angel Gabriel announcing to Mary that she will bear God's son — was such a tremendous,...

PHILADELPHIA  — Parties, cookie exchanges, family get-togethers and that bowl of Christmas candy on your co-worker's desk can all weigh heavily on the scale...

By KAREN JAMES From the lighting of the first Advent candle to the final stroke of midnight Mass, Christmas traditions evoke the meaning of the...

A manger scene can make people feel good at Christmas and that’s what Patty Derrick and her friends in Rehoboth Beach were aiming for...

If you’re not familiar with the story of how Jesus befriends St. Nicholas, obviously you have not read “The Miracle of Santa Claus,” a...

FERDINAND, Ind. — The sights and sounds of Christmas brightened the massive dome of the Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand as six Sisters of...

BY EFFIE CALDEROLA My husband and I raised three kids in Alaska. It was a great place to live, but it was a long way from...

For The Dialog Father Stanislao Esposito didn’t anxiously await Christmas morning to see what Santa had left him while growing up in Italy. Instead, he...