“You have to expend energy: Family life requires give and take. At every age, we offer what we can to fill each other’s needs.”
Laura Kelly Fanucci: This holiday season, remember it’s not about you
Vatican Christmas to feature Indigenous Peruvian crèche
The Nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square this year will have a distinctly Indigenous, Andean look with the centerpiece being a “Hilipuska” baby Jesus, that is, one wrapped in a blanket bound with a long cord known as a “chumpi.”
Ministry is geared up to again bring Christmas joy to children in need
The Box of Joy program encourages people nationwide to give back to less fortunate children in countries around the world.
Pope on Christmas: Share hope, promote peace, give vaccine to all
On a Christmas like no other, Pope Francis prayed for people who could not be with their families because of the COVID-19 pandemic and urged everyone to recognize and help those who are suffering even more.
Christmas ‘hijacked’ by consumerist mentality, pope says
Christmas must not be confused with “ephemeral things” that reduce the celebration of Christ’s birth “to a merely sentimental or consumerist festival,” the pope said Dec. 23 during his weekly general audience.
New Jersey parishes find creative new ways to engage Catholics this Christmas
Tickets for Masses, virtual holiday concerts, video Christmas cards, and drive-by Nativity scenes: It’s beginning to look a lot like a different sort of Christmas.
Meditating with Giorgione’s painting ‘The Adoration of the Shepherds’
Art invites us to look at Scripture in new ways. Nativity scenes usually focus on the Holy Family, but this painting focuses on the shepherds, centered in the middle of the painting.
Contemplating the closeness of the Incarnation in a year of separation
“How could we possibly find God in the suffering of separation, especially in a season that for many us is often spent in closeness with others?”