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Christmas

Gospel call to conversion lasts a lifetime, pope tells Curia officials

December 22, 2022
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Every Christian and every Christian community is called to conversion, a process that lasts a lifetime and is needed even more by people who think they are firmly on the path to holiness, Pope Francis told officials of the Roman Curia.

Nativity scenes on display at a record 43 state capitols, law firm says

December 22, 2022
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, World News

Private citizen groups have arranged for Nativity scenes to be on display at 43 state capitols around the country, a record number, according to a not-for-profit law firm’s tally.

Is there a deeper meaning behind ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’?

December 22, 2022
By Chris Price
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, World News

There are birds — lots of birds — gold rings, milking maids, dancing ladies, leaping lords, pipers and drummers, but is there a deeper meaning behind the gifts received in “The Twelve Days of Christmas?”

Lights in the sky a cherished Christmas memory

December 22, 2022
By Mitzy Deras
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary

Enjoying snow and hot chocolate is a cozy way to spend Christmas, but watching the sky light up in celebration of the birth of Christ is just as magical.

RADIO INTERVIEW: Surviving a Blue Christmas: How Faith Lifts Us Up During the Holidays

December 20, 2022
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview

Father Jeffrey Dauses, pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary in Baynesville and St. Thomas More in Baltimore, shares pastoral wisdom for those going through difficult times this Christmas season, including family and relational issues, life uncertainties, times of transition and grieving the loss of a loved one.

Pierogi factory: Catholic Review managing editor relishes Polish Christmas traditions

December 20, 2022
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Feature, The Narthex

Using a cherished family recipe handed down from ancestors from Poland, Catholic Review Managing Editor George Matysek Jr. and his wife, Treasa, spend the wee hours before Christmas making, kneading and rolling out dough and then dropping homemade potato-and-cheese filling into each carefully crafted circle.

New year’s interfaith service at St. Ignatius marks 30th anniversary

December 20, 2022
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, Local News, News

More than 600 people from Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist faith traditions annually pack the city’s Jesuit church, St. Ignatius, to offer prayers for the city and civic leaders.

Jordan to develop tourist village next to World Heritage Baptism Site

December 15, 2022
By Dale Gavlak
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Saints, World News

Jordan began Christmas celebrations by unveiling a project that could attract 1 million pilgrims annually to the officially recognized site of Jesus’ baptism on the east bank of the Jordan River.

Extension features Nativity art, letters by children of Ukraine, Uvalde

December 15, 2022
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Gun Violence, News, World News

Catholic Extension’s cover story is about Christmas through the eyes of these children who “come from different cultures and parts of the world, but what they share in common is faith — faith in the midst of terror, violence and war,” the story said.

Celebrate Christmas ‘with Ukraine in your hearts,’ pope says, urging aid

December 14, 2022
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Crisis in Ukraine, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Celebrating Christmas is important and beautiful, Pope Francis said, but he asked people to spend less on their celebrations this year and donate the savings to help the people of Ukraine.

The devil is sneaky, so Christians must be watchful, pope says

December 14, 2022
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, News, Vatican, World News

Vigilance is an essential part of the spiritual life because the devil will try to sneak in when one is not paying attention or, especially, when a Christian thinks he or she is making a lot of progress on the road to holiness, Pope Francis said.

RADIO INTERVIEW: Christmas music and the power of song in times of plague

December 13, 2022
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview

Dr. Remi Chiu, a musicologist at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore and author of “Plague and Music in the Renaissance” talks with George Matysek in this encore episode about Christmas music and the historic power of music in times of plague and pandemic.

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