Inspired by his friend and mentor Henri Nouwen, Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, leader of Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S., ...

The Irish tradition has long been that on Nollaig na mBan, this final day of the busy Christmas season, women get to put ...

May we keep that experience present and alive, and “let every heart prepare him room,” eager to welcome the one who brings ...

Today’s passage highlights the role of family ethics. “God sets a father in honor over his children; a mother’s authority he ...

Devoted fans of Chesterton (1874-1936), a well-known British writer and Catholic convert, marked the 150th anniversary of his ...

Bell ringing has a rich history, integrated into daily and liturgical life year-round, a tradition being rediscovered and ...

For the second straight year, Bethlehem’s Christmas celebrations will be somber and muted, in deference to ongoing war in ...

President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, ...

When I dropped him off for the first of three rehearsals, we passed a girl crying in front of a sheet of paper taped to a ...

Even the Vincent Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, where every painting bursts with personality, suffers from what I would call ...

In the small town of Stilfontein, some 90 miles from the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, hundreds, possibly thousands, of ...

No one can manufacture Christmas, make Christmas magic. Christmas is not compelled by effort or technique. No, there is only ...