Every year around holiday time kids' behavior disintegrates. Visiting with relatives is always the worst part. The kids are overstimulated at one house, then bored at another. Around the holidays they seem to morph into whiny, greedy little monsters. Is there a
By American standards, the Via San Gregorio Armeno wouldn't even qualify as an alley. Measuring perhaps 5 feet across, it's barely wide enough for three men to pass through it abreast. Yet come Advent, the little street in Naples, Italy, welcomes thousands
If we are living Advent mindfully, we are preparing our hearts and minds for something even more remarkable than Christ’s birth: his second coming in salvation. Advent, at its best, can be for us a time of intense spiritual training — to
Look to Our Sunday Visitor's annual gift guide to find Catholic gifts that aid your loved ones' spiritual lives or remind them of their faith. We have 25 Catholic present ideas, including collectible saint dolls, newly released books, beautiful art prints, coffee,
Black Friday 2022 was the biggest we’ve ever seen in America. According to the National Retail Federation, more than 196 million Americans shopped in stores or online from Thanksgiving Day to Cyber Monday last year. The tragedy is that our thirst for
Christmas in Bethlehem and the Holy Land this year will be one of solemnity, prayer and fasting as the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem called upon the faithful to forgo any "unnecessarily festive activities" during the Christmas season this
Churches in Jordan are canceling Christmas celebrations in solidarity with Gaza as violence in the Palestinian enclave mounts.
The leaders of Jordan's Council of Churches announced Nov. 5 the cancellation of all festivities and events to express deepening concern over the escalating humanitarian
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed into law a bill moving the official observance of Christmas Day to Dec. 25 from Jan. 7, when Moscow and the Russian Orthodox Church mark the holiday.
Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, approved the measure -- which
Victoria Costa writes about George Frideric Handel and how he came to compose the Messiah, a classical musical staple that can carry listeners into the cosmic vision of redemption brought by the Resurrection, and know that Christ, who came into the world
With the Church still celebrating the Christmas season, columnist David Mills looks back on a request in the 1930s by the Communist Party’s Daily Worker to obtain a Christmas message from Dorothy Day and her Catholic Worker newspaper that would “contribute toward