Seeing Santas at every corner and checkout counter, Christmas trees adorning every public place, lights blinking and "Joy to the World" blaring from all directions, we tend to forget the historical ...

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Solemnities: Celebrating a Tapestry of Divine Beauty. Catholics see the world as a marriage of the spiritual and material, not a divorce of these two ...

Which Christmas Mass are you going to? When I was a child, we went to an early morning Mass — before we could see what Santa brought. Whichever celebration you choose, unless perhaps the Mass at Dawn, ...

In most of the United States, today is the Solemnity of the Ascension. In a limited number of dioceses, primarily in the Northeast, the Solemnity was celebrated on its proper day, i.e., Ascension ...

On my first Christmas as a priest, I was assigned one of the parish’s three simultaneous Vigil Masses for Christmas Eve. We had one in the church, one in the school gym and one in the chapel at the ...

The Vatican has published Pope Francis’ Christmas schedule for this year, which includes five special liturgies and prayers between Christmas Eve and the Solemnity of the Epiphany. During the ...

Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, is kicking off a new video series today on art and faith with a video celebrating today’s solemnity, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. The video ...

Devotees flock to the Manila Cathedral in observance of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 2020. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/File MANILA - The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception ...