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

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 ...

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

When we remember John R. Donahue, S.J., prominent themes that come to mind include his passions for Catholic biblical ...

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 ...

The relationship between Pimentel, dubbed by some media outlets as “the pope’s favorite nun,” and Flores, recently elected as ...

The eyes of faith allowed us to see the people we served as people who shared in the purpose of life we all have been tasked ...

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

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

On April 15, 1874, an exhibition organized by 31 artists who had created themselves as the Société Anonyme des Artistes ...

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