King Solomon, stained glass, Chartres Cathedral, France, 1145-1155. Detail from the Jesse Tree Window King Solomon, stained glass, Chartres Cathedral, France, 1145-1155. Detail from the Jesse Tree ...

That Christmas involves a message of “joy” is anchored in the biblical story of the Nativity itself. The angel who appears to the shepherd in the field on the night of Jesus’ birth announces: “Do not ...

BUTTE, Mont. — Most Christians observe Christmas on December 25th. But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate Christ's birth on January 7th. For parishioners at the Serbian Orthodox Church in Butte it was a ...

Scripture and music unite as Dennis Haysbert narrates Luke 2 in 'Hope of the Season.' Experience the heart of the Christmas story as Dennis Haysbert narrates Luke Chapter 2, accompanied by Mack ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

There are three well-known accounts of Christmas in the New Testament. We have St. John’s austerely metaphysical version ("The Word became flesh and dwelt among us."). And we have the more narratively ...