Help kids focus on Jesus as the real meaning for the season. Joseph Pronechen News December 18, 2007 Santa Claus, toy commercials and holiday specials can muscle out the real meaning of the season ...

Vatican City, Dec 21, 2016 / 03:13 am. While hope can often be viewed as the desire for things out of our reach, Pope Francis has said that the birth of Jesus offers us a new kind hope – one ...

It is Christmas, that most quintessentially Catholic of holidays. The Pilgrims and Puritans who founded the English-speaking colonies, and would become culturally dominant in the religious sphere ...

Merry Christmas. Sharing Jesus through gift-giving, gift receiving, and gift re-giving - meaningful and beautiful ways of celebrating Christmas. ... Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope takes charge ...

Pope on Christmas: Jesus was poor, ... Essay: A gay, lapsed Catholic on loving Pope Francis. April 22, 2025. Voices. Contributor: Pope Francis’ enduring message — unite to heal God’s Earth.

A Catholic priest is under fire for his Christmas Day declaration that Jesus was "a Palestinian Jew born into an occupied country" as critics maintained the name "Palestine" was no.

In a controversial take on the classic nativity scene, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus’s traditional blanket with a keffiyeh — a symbol of pro-Palestine activism.

People from all across the DMV spent their Christmas Eve at The Basilica of the National Shrine of Immaculate Conception, the United States' largest Catholic church.

Here we mention 10 religious Christmas quotes about Jesus - "God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas it is because we all have the ...

Dear Jesus, We communicate frequently, but communication reaches a new level in sacredly celebrating your birthday — Christmas Day. Time passes swiftly.