We, like Joseph, are invited to empty ourselves, choosing to abandon anything that can get in the way of our union with God or our collaboration with God's design for creation.

Manger scenes displayed at Christmas usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the Gospel of Luke, Mary placed her child in a manger “because there was no room for them in ...

Christmas is fast approaching but if you are short of a few ideas for some family fun, the Belfast Telegraph has gathered together some of the best events happening across Northern Ireland in a guide ...

Royal Oak — When Barbara Carter interviewed to be a social worker at Lighthouse Sanctuary, a shelter for homeless youth, the interviewer asked her one question that came as a surprise: "Can you cook?" ...

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Author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Frank Morrison almost can't stop joking with each other long enough to talk about their new picture book. "Some like to think we're a winning ...

Every year, around the holidays, H-E-B hosts the "Feast of Sharing," feeding thousands of people in need. Wednesday night, organizers say this year's need is much greater than in years past. At Dickie ...

The Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome—a feast about a building—can intimidate preachers. The temptation? Mention it briefly and move on to the readings. But Sylvester Tan, S.J.

Hundreds of Christian Zionists from more than 70 nations around the world are heading to Jerusalem this week for the annual Feast of Tabernacles celebrations, in the largest solidarity mission to ...

Today, I salute the millions of Christian believers in the United States and around the world observing the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel. According to sacred Scripture, when the Devil rebelled ...

METHUEN — With hard hooves, tough skin and insatiable appetites, a herd of goats descended on a poison ivy-plagued path outside Comprehensive Grammar School last week. Goats from Goats to Go, a ...

For the next 10 days, the stretch of 18th Avenue from 68th to 75th Streets in Bensonhurst will transform for the 51st annual Santa Rosalia Feast, a tradition that blends Italian roots with Brooklyn ...