“The Nativity scene and the Christmas tree are signs of faith and hope,” he said to all those present. “Let the tenderness of the child Jesus illuminate our lives. Let God’s love, like the branches of ...

People working at a kiosk on the first floor of Mall of America in Bloomington are selling merchandise and tickets to Vatican Unveiled, a Jan. 10 to Feb. 1 exhibit that will feature the largest ...

We radiate the life of Jesus to the world to the extent that we live with the conviction that we are divinely loved. Advent calls us beyond the false security of the merely virtuous person and into ...

John Rajtar’s deepest passions come into focus at Christmas: faith and family, celebrated through cherished Polish traditions. The 68-year-old folk artist and iconographer decorates every nook of his ...

"Someone lost a boot!" As the story begins, my dad starts laughing. Every year he loves to retell the tale of the December we got a 16-foot tree to stuff in our house. One of us wound up crying ...

I think non-Christians can be given a little slack for being a bit incredulous about the dogmatic claims of Christmas.

Even in difficult situations and harsh places, like prisons, when people focus on caring for one another, respecting each other and offering forgiveness, "beautiful flowers spring forth from the 'hard ...

Hong Kong's prominent Catholic, media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai has been convicted of national security offenses under the city's controversial national security law.

After two gunmen targeted Jewish beachgoers at an event celebrating the first day of Hanukkah in a terror attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach, Pope Leo XIV said he is "deeply saddened" by the attack he ...

When the tragic shooting at Annunciation church in Minneapolis took place the morning of Aug. 27 during a Mass for children at the school, it didn’t take long for the Catholic Community Foundation of ...

Condemning the attack on Jews celebrating Hanukkah in Sydney, Pope Leo XIV said, "Enough with these forms of antisemitic violence! We must eradicate hatred from our hearts." ...

Across the street from the B.H. Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling along the Mississippi River in the Twin Cities, people gathered with paintings of Our Lady of Guadalupe on her feast day, Dec.