A mock synagogue at a Christmas festival in an Italian mountain village offered a surprising opportunity for Jewish outreach ...

Who are the shepherds in the Bible? Shepherds are primarily those responsible for tending livestock, usually goats or sheep—vital resources in a fundamentally pastoral civilization. The Hebrews ...

During the Angelus on the Solemnity of the Epiphany, Pope Francis invites us to look at how we welcome Jesus in our own lives ...

That the Star of Bethlehem indicates a direction is also a helpful point of reflection during the Jubilee Year 2025, the Pope ...

The smallness of God in the Eucharist and in the manger is a scandal. The all-powerful One becomes so small that he can be ...

Epiphany Sunday year C ✠ A reading from the Holy Gospel, according to Matthew 2:1-12 When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in ...

While Egypt served as a refuge, it is not the final destination of God's people. As Moses called God's children out of Egypt, ...

In his first Angelus address of 2025, Pope Francis called for debt relief for the world’s poorest nations and renewed his appeals for peace.

The Christmas story is the world’s greatest news story. Indeed, the birth of Jesus Christ two thousand years ago is the ...

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

However, many historians and archaeologists do not confirm this. According to scholars, the story of Bethlehem, shepherds, wise men, and a manger could have emerged only later, when Christians tried ...