Mary, here sleeping as St. Joseph cradles the infant Jesus in a stained-glass window at St. Patrick Church in Smithtown, N.Y., knew what she was in for when she accepted God’s call for her divine ...

The adventures of Jacob and his children have served as a throughline in the genesis of America – from abolition to ...

The joy and jollity of the season for most of us was seriously inhibited by the news coming in, and even more tragically for those directly involved.

Today Orthodox believers are celebrating the great feast of the Nativity of Christ, known as Christmas. In their writings, ...

Each December, as the month deepens into Christmas, families around the world engage in an age-old ritual, unwrapping the ...

Checkpoints, closures, and roadblocks now define the road to Bethlehem, alongside raids and clashes that have left many Palestinians wounded or killed. Christmas celebrations returned to the biblical ...

People flocked to Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas after two years of war, as a precarious ceasefire in Gaza enters its second month. Thousands of Palestinians and tourists filled Manger square, ...

Bethlehem - After two years marked by brutal Israeli military violence in Gaza, Bethlehem, the Palestinian city revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, is cautiously welcoming the Christmas season ...

A new book argues that the mother of Jesus was a powerhouse in her own right. Madonna and Child, c.1485 (oil on wood) by Giovanni Bellini, currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Palestinian Christians have gathered at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem for the first time since Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza began in 2023 to celebrate Christmas. Bethlehem’s mayor says the ...

Tom Griffin is the chair of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of a print and online Catholic magazine called The Empty Tomb ...