With Emperor Constantine's intervention and the Christian religion's legitimisation, which gave rise to the free practice of ...

The birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is a central mystery of the Christian faith. At the heart of this mystery stands ...

Christmas is so familiar that it is easy to miss how utterly unlike every other religious claim it truly is. The story is ...

Yes, Jesus is descended from patriarchs and kings, but now magi from the East come to worship him. That is, through Jesus all ...

The Liturgy of the Hours — that sleeping giant among the laity — is starting to wake up for Catholics in the pews, says Oblate of the Virgin Mary Father Timothy Gallagher, author of A Layman’s Guide ...

There are repeated references in the Bible to the mysteries of God’s plan, and to things only revealed after the Author of salvation had come into the world and completed his redemptive work. Today ...

The Catholic faith draws on the word of God. We know God and his truth not in the light of our own reason — created, finite and limited — but in the light of his Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:3). He ...

The nativity in the flesh of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ, known as Christmas in the West, is one of the 12 major feast days of the liturgical year in the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition ...

After years of abandoning the practice, many Catholic parishes once again offer regular opportunities for eucharistic adoration. While some enthusiastically embrace this practice, others associate it ...

Despite my love for Christmas karaoke, I am not a trained musician. My ears are unfit to distinguish a mediocre melody from a magnificent one. Still, when it comes to Christmas carols, I consider ...

It has hardly been a year since the conclusion of the Year of the Rosary and we have yet again another initiative of the Holy Father: The Year of the Eucharist (October 2004 – October 2005). The ...