“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 ...

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

"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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

During Advent, traditional reflections remind us that our call to evangelize involves waiting and anticipation. As we move ...

Father Jonathan Kelly — rector of St. John Vianney College Seminary in St. Paul — and seminarians from the college studying in Rome received an unexpected blessing the day before Thanksgiving: They ...

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.

God is love,” St. John writes in his first letter. Such a simple phrase, and yet plumbless in its depths. Father Romano Guardini, in his book “The Lord,” reflected that to understand the kind of love ...