Tag: Christmas

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...

Responding to editors’ requests for a regular sampling of current commentary from around the Catholic press, here is an editorial titled: “Thanksgiving. Advent. Christmas....

VATICAN CITY -- Although the Vatican knows Christmas may be very different this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it already has chosen its...

CLEVELAND — A new postage stamp for Christmas shows detail from an 18th-century Peruvian painting of Our Lady of Guapulo. The ornate image of Mary...

WILMINGTON — The weather outside may have been frightful, but it was a delightful evening at Ursuline Academy on July 30 as the school...

VATICAN CITY -- The light of peace, hope and salvation brought into the world with the birth of Jesus is stronger than the darkness...

At one point in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program each year I ask participants a seemingly simple question: "Is it possible...