Tag: Christmas
Palestinian Catholic Issa Kassissieh brings ‘miracle of Santa’ to Jerusalem’s Old...
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...
Indiana Christmas tree farmers provide patrons with a religious encounter
TRAFALGAR, Ind. — Alena Beckwith may be only 7 years old, but she is already helping with the family business and evangelizing others in...
Advent Week 3: Find the joy where you can in this...
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...
In Bethlehem this Christmas, unemployment can mean choosing between food or...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- As the Christmas approaches, Franciscan Father Rami Asakrieh of St. Catherine Parish said he has been overwhelmed with requests for...
Perhaps guilt trips remind us to not lose perspective this time...
I usually look unfavorably at anyone who lays guilt trips on me that are a form of covert force that goes against the grain...
Sharing light with others is an important practice now, more than...
In Spring 2015, I attended an exhibition on the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. It was a...
Thanksgiving. Advent. Christmas. 2021: An opportunity to enter new year with...
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 Christmas will be different this year, but the setting will...
VATICAN CITY -- Although the Vatican knows Christmas may be very different this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it already has chosen its...
Peruvian painting of Our Lady of Gualpulo gets Christmas postage stamp...
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...
Ursuline Academy produces a bit of holiday cheer with Christmas in...
WILMINGTON — The weather outside may have been frightful, but it was a delightful evening at Ursuline Academy on July 30 as the school...










