When I was a child, the small nativity scene my family displayed at Christmas included only a single king rather than the traditional three. Perhaps two had gotten lost before my family inherited the ...

Just as our GPS doesn’t leave us for lost if we don’t follow the digital arrow when we find ourselves on a precipitous path ...

Believe it or not, Christmas didn’t end until this week. January 6 marks Epiphany, the final night of the "Twelve Days of Christmas," and the traditional date when the Magi visited baby Jesus and his ...

ONLINE EXTRAS Plain Dealer Graphic: The "Magi' Revealed" The approach of Christmas inevitably brings attention to Old Master depictions of the Nativity and the adoration of the infant Jesus by three ...

The afternoon celebration on Jan. 6 brought together a small crowd of believers, young and old, in the Latin Church of St. Catherine, part of the complex of the Basilica of the Nativity. On the ...

Q&A with religious studies scholar Eric Vanden Eykel on the history, mystery, memes, and meaning of the wise men in the Book of Matthew. The answers, for many, are as easy to recall as the first line ...

The Magi arrived in Bethlehem this year bearing their gifts as the faithful held out their hands for grains of incense and drops of myrrh in the annual reenactment of the Epiphany by the Franciscan ...