Thought to have originated in southern Italy, the feast also known as La Vigilia — the Vigil, or Eve — reflects the Catholic ...

A recent Numerator study finds 87% of Americans plan to celebrate Christmas. Three-fourths of those mark the holiday by ...

After its account of Jesus’ birth, the Bible is almost entirely silent on his childhood. Yet legends about Jesus’ early years ...

This year will go down as one of the best and worst years ever to be a Catholic in the United States.

While many parishes held early morning services, other advocacy organizations organized vigils in honor of the symbolic ...

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

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Our Lady of Guadalupe was an important symbol for ordinary mestizo people seeking to reconcile their Aztec and Spanish ...