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Christmas

RADIO INTERVIEW: The Holy Family

January 3, 2023
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Local News, Marriage & Family Life, News, Radio Interview

The Holy Family holds lessons for all of us about how to pray, how to trust in God and live in love.

Continue contemplating the mystery of Christmas, pope urges

December 28, 2022
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

The birth of Jesus in a stable “shows us God’s ‘style,’ which is closeness, compassion, and tenderness,” Pope Francis told visitors and pilgrims at his weekly general audience.

Priest weathers Christmas blizzard on fireboat celebrating Mass for two

December 27, 2022
By Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, World News

In the midst of the multiday blizzard that paralyzed parts of western New York, Father Seil, chaplain for the Buffalo Fire Department, had to evacuate the rectory at his parish in the city’s Old First Ward neighborhood on Christmas Eve, then spent the night aboard the department’s fire boat and celebrated a short Mass Christmas morning for crewman Jack Kelleher.

Parishioners at Ss. Philip and James weather cold snap with Christmas spirit

December 27, 2022
By Gerry Jackson
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Local News, News

Parishes throughout the archdiocese faced some unusual challenges with temperatures in the teens and wind-chill temperatures in the single digits during Christmas weekend.

Ukrainian archbishop urges people to celebrate Christmas even amid war

December 27, 2022
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Crisis in Ukraine, Feature, News, World News

Intermittent electricity and air raid sirens cannot and should not stop Ukrainians from celebrating the birth of Jesus, said Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

Jesus’ birth is not ‘fairy tale,’ but call to live the Gospel, pope says

December 27, 2022
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News

The day after Christmas the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, which emphasizes how the story of Jesus’ birth is not a “fairy tale,” but a call to live as witnesses of the Gospel, Pope Francis said.

Toward eternity

December 27, 2022
By Father Joseph Breighner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Wit & Wisdom

We can see the passing years and decades as simply growing older. Or we can see the passing years and decades as growing toward eternity.

Listen to the cries of the newborn Prince of Peace, pope says on Christmas

December 25, 2022
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

With the birth of Jesus, God became flesh to share the joys and sorrows, hopes and fears of all people, especially the poor and those living daily amid danger, Pope Francis said in his Christmas message.

Bring hope to others, justice for the poor, pope says at Christmas Mass

December 24, 2022
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Christ was born to touch people’s hearts and show that love is the power that changes the course of history, Pope Francis said.

‘Silent Night’ put town on map; chapel memorializing carol draws tourists

December 24, 2022
By Ann M. Augherton
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Christmas, Feature, News, World News

The Christmas song “Stille Nacht” (“Silent Night”) may have put the town of Oberndorf, Austria, on the map, but it’s the chapel memorializing the beloved carol that is the town’s main attraction.

Christian leaders in Holy Land: Refugees suffer like Holy Family did

December 23, 2022
By Judith Sudilovksy
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, World News

Comparing the suffering Jesus and the Holy Family endured to the way many people and refugees are suffering today, the patriarchs and heads of churches of the Holy Land reminded the faithful of the “deep and abiding love” God has for all his people.

In couple’s roadside Christmas display, the Nativity is front and center

December 23, 2022
By Jay Nies
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, World News

A matching Nativity scene shines alone inside the couple’s arc-shaped driveway — including the Holy Family, angels, shepherds, wise men and farm animals — clearly set apart from all the rest.

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