Here is the lesser-known third verse of the Christmas carol “Joy to the World,” which Isaac Watts penned in 1719: No more let ...

Churches across the U.S. and abroad are quietly experimenting with AI-generated Christmas content, from Nativity visuals and ...

Hope lives, Francis reminded the faithful on Christmas Eve, as he spoke of the blessed arrival of the Christ Child and the start of the Jubilee. Pope Francis carries the statue of the Child Jesus to ...

"Populus, qui ambulabat in tenebris, vidit lucem magnam - The People who walked in darkness have seen a great light" (Is 9:1). Every year we listen again to these words of the Prophet Isaiah in the ...

VATICAN CITY — In his Christmas homily, Pope Francis asked Christians to contemplate that God did not choose to come into the world in grandeur, but as a humble child born into poverty. “Brothers and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Cardinal Blaise Cupich celebrated Christmas Mass at Holy Name Cathedral. In his Christmas homily, Cardinal Cupich addressed the pandemic to a small group of socially-distant ...

It is said that we can credit our moms for the magic of Christmas, although one American classic tells a different story. In the movie “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (1989), the father of the ...

SPRINGFIELD - This past Tuesday, we marked the Winter Solstice, which brings to the people of the Northern Hemisphere the shortest length of daylight that we experience all year. For these past weeks, ...

Before Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley led Christmas Mass on Sunday morning for hundreds of parishioners in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, he first offered his homily to an intimate group of residents and ...

I prepared two homilies for Christmas: one for the 4:00 vigil Mass which draws so many young families and one for the rest of the 5 Mass on the calendar. The first was unscripted, the second in text.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Here is the English text of Pope Benedict XVI's Christmas Eve homily, delivered in Italian. Spelling and style are the Vatican's. Dear Brothers and Sisters! Again and again the ...