After serving as an active Methodist pastor for more than 40 years, I am now retired. My husband is also a retired Methodist pastor, and growing up, our two daughters attended worship in the Methodist ...

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — One baby Jesus lies in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied. Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, ...

As they faced difficult challenges that many might consider hopeless both in their native country and in their adopted ...

When we honor Mary the mother, the moon who shines by the light of her son, we should also remember that her soul shone with ...

Churches in Illinois and Massachusetts are reimagining the Christmas story as a commentary on federal immigration enforcement ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the popular Marian feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe by asking that Mary to intercede in the effort to ...

A baby Jesus lays in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied. Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, wearing a plastic gas mask and ...

This year’s two grand-prize winners were Janielle Perez, a student at Resurrection Catholic School in the Archdiocese of Los ...

The Third Sunday of Advent allows an opportunity to experience conversion. It's a powerful experience of God’s grace in Jesus Christ whose coming we anticipate by rejoicing always, writes Msgr. Joseph ...

In some denominations, Advent is also celebrated by the lighting of an Advent wreath, which represents Jesus coming as a ...