The Vatican Nativity Scene 2021 Coming From Peru
Last year, the Vatican nativity set came, for some, from outer space; in 2021 it is coming from the Andes. The 2021 manger that will be placed in...
Category: Christmas
Making New Year’s Resolutions? Then Remember Christmas…
Does making New Year’s resolutions work for you? PETE SHEEHAN has some ideas that may help you — especially if we keep the meaning of Christmas at...
Joseph, Mary & Jesus
Günther Simmermacher looks at the life & times of the Holy Family The Bible is not generous with biographical detail about the Holy Family. We encounter Joseph,...
Pope on Christmas: Share hope, promote peace, give vaccine to all
By Cindy Wooden – On a Christmas like no other, Pope Francis prayed for people who could not be with their families because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but...
The Death of the Old Order
By the late Owen Williams St Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), preaching his sixth sermon for Christmas Eve, took as his text Jesus Christ, the Son of God,...
Christmas Day Reflection
When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that...
Irish Donkey Gets into the Spirit
A child in Galway, Ireland, is nuzzled by a donkey wearing a Santa hat, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Clodagh Kilcoyne, Reuters)
A Painting That Teaches the Nativity
A 14th-century altarpiece from Siena, Italy, tells the story of the Nativity in perfect visual terms, as Jem Sullivan explains. ‘Jesus was born in a humble stable,...
Proclaim ‘Good News of Great Joy’!
The commercialism of Christmas can easily tempt us to become spiritually sidetracked. A barrage of commercials tries to sell the illusion that buying more things will bring...
Pope: Christmas ‘hijacked’ by consumerist mentality
By Junno Arocho Esteves – While Christmas has become a universal holiday, even for many nonbelievers, its celebration always should focus on the reality that God sent his...
A Christmas Wish
This is not the Christmas we envisioned for ourselves or our children. There’s no getting away from that, no matter how hard we try. There’s an old...
Nativity light-sound Show Projected on US Cathedral
Elisabeth Holod of Assumption Parish in St. Paul has long been intrigued by light-sound shows and art history, and she loves the Cathedral of St. Paul, which...
