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the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elizabeth, your relative, has also conceived a son in ...

As Saint announces: “Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name ... The stations from the Praetorium to ...

The world’s definition of peace is a state of tranquility, freedom from disturbance, and harmony in personal relations. Who ...

Merry X-mas! Does that greeting make you glad? Or maybe mad? What does it even mean? Specifically, what’s up with the X-factor? Is the marking of an “X” banning something? Branding something?

Hello, my Bermuda family. We are on the countdown to the new year, and as the year ends, it offers an opportunity for ...

Jesus' incarnation happened in one moment of history. From the manger to the cross, it was hard to believe in such a simple, ...

The Infant Jesus of Prague is a tourist symbol that attracts parishioners and the curious. The Catholic icon, located in the Church of Our Lady of Victorious, seems to defy statistics that rank the ...

In his first public Mass, celebrated in Seville province, Spain, Bishop Rolando Álvarez prayed for his “beloved Nicaragua.” ...

Pope Francis will conduct centuries-old rituals that open symbolic doors to forgiveness. They're not portals to other dimensions, planes or worlds.

Even for the most devout people of faith, the Holy Spirit can be mysterious and the least understood person of the Holy ...

The cultures of the first-century Mediterranean world did not draw clear lines between civic and religious life as many do ...