Pope Francis prayed that the Jubilee Year may become “a season of hope” and reconciliation in a world at war and suffering ...

If God can visit us, even when our hearts seem like a lowly manger, we can truly say: Hope is not dead; hope is alive and it ...

Inspired by his friend and mentor Henri Nouwen, Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, leader of Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S., ...

Bell ringing has a rich history, integrated into daily and liturgical life year-round, a tradition being rediscovered and ...

The Irish tradition has long been that on Nollaig na mBan, this final day of the busy Christmas season, women get to put ...

Even the Vincent Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, where every painting bursts with personality, suffers from what I would call ...

When I dropped him off for the first of three rehearsals, we passed a girl crying in front of a sheet of paper taped to a ...

Devoted fans of Chesterton (1874-1936), a well-known British writer and Catholic convert, marked the 150th anniversary of his ...

The relationship between Pimentel, dubbed by some media outlets as “the pope’s favorite nun,” and Flores, recently elected as ...

No one can manufacture Christmas, make Christmas magic. Christmas is not compelled by effort or technique. No, there is only ...

May we keep that experience present and alive, and “let every heart prepare him room,” eager to welcome the one who brings ...

In the small town of Stilfontein, some 90 miles from the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, hundreds, possibly thousands, of ...