Does your congregation have any special or unusual Advent or Christmas customs? Are there any that are characteristic of your country/culture?

Bishops worldwide celebrated the opening of the 2025 Holy Year Dec. 29 with Masses in their cathedrals and co-cathedrals to ...

Luke loves to present his characters in pairs by way of complementarity and contrast. He contrasts Zechariah and Mary in their response to the message of the angel Gabriel. He pairs Simeon and Anna as ...

Feast of the Holy Family, Francis pointed to the nucleus of Nazareth as a 'model'. After Jesus' return to the Temple, Mary ...

Jesus claimed to have come from God and, unlike other humans, knew exactly where he was before being conceived.

On Dec. 31, while many people are preparing for their New Years Eve parties, some Roman Catholic Christians will also mark ...

Olivia Hussey, the actor who starred as a teenage Juliet in the 1968 film "Romeo and Juliet," has died, her family said on ...

Olivia Hussey, best known for starring as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of classic Shakespeare play Romeo and ...

In those days Hannah conceived, and at the end of her term bore a son whom she called Samuel, since she had asked the Lord for him. The next time her husband Elkanah was going up with the rest of his ...

Jesus of Nazareth’ in 1977 where she played Mary and the 1990 movie adaptation of Stephen King's “It," and "Romeo and Juliet" ...

“Romeo and Juliet” won two Oscars and Hussey won a Golden Globe for best new actress for her part as Juliet, opposite British actor Leonard Whiting, who was 16 at the time. Decades later Hussey ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some ...