“The Christmas Carol” is only the most prominent of Dickens’s several Christmas stories, my favorite of which is “The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home,” published on Dec. 20, 1845.

Growing our spiritual lives while immersed in a digital world requires a media spirituality that centers us in Christ, the perfect communicator.

You cannot “double dip” by attending a Christmas eve Mass that happens to be on Sunday and have this one Mass fulfill two obligations.

The things we buy cannot replace quality time spent with loved ones.

Detachment scares people — it sounds like coldness or indifference — but I’m coming to believe it’s actually a deep manifestation of love.

Pope Francis wrote about encountering Christ and the joy of evangelizing, a church that goes forth, not hiding or shrinking from challenges, but embracing them in openness and love to all.

Advent prepares us for Jesus’ coming at Christmas and for his coming into our lives afresh. And no one knows how to get ready to welcome Christ better than the saints.

Make Advent loving and fun, with your focus on Jesus.

The richness of 40 distinct voices lifts the soul upward, but also outward.

Abstaining from meat is still the U.S. bishops’ stated preference for how Catholics should observe Fridays.