Advent is best lived as a penitential season. It summons us to wait for the Lord, to pause, to reflect, to ask hard questions of ourselves, and to place first things first. Taking the Catholic Pulse ...

Denver, Colo., Nov 28, 2022 / 06:36 am. The First Sunday of Advent 2022 is Nov. 27, exactly four weeks before the Sunday of Christmas this year, and while the Church provides this time to allow ...

Catholic League president Bill Donohue excoriated the European Court of Human Rights for ruling in favor of Eloïse Bouton, who simulated aborting Jesus on an altar during Mass.

Bethlehem, West Bank, Dec 2, 2024 / 13:45 pm. For the second consecutive year, Advent and Christmas in the Holy Land arrive at a time of war.

Annalise Laumeyer, Director of Communications with the Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids, explains what Advent means and how people of all faiths can celebrate the season.

In Advent Scripture readings, we hear much about joy and peace. But so, too, do we hear about wrath and judgment; and this year, Rebecca Bratten Weiss writes, that feels validating.

Eloïse Bouton stands at the altar of the Madeleine church in Paris holding ox livers in protest the Catholic Church's stance on abortion Dec. 20, 2013. (Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images) ...

In his lifetime, Patrick Kavanagh considered it a dubious honour to be reckoned the best Irish poet since William Butler Yeats; he took it to mean “the second best Irish poet after Yeats ...

I came of age in the Catholic milieu in Washington in the 1970s and ’80s. I attended Catholic schools. As a child, I went to Mass each Sunday with my observant parents, dutifully reciting the ...

New Children's Catholic Book, 'The Advent Adventures with Father Nate' Released. Sep 25, 2024, 12:49 PM ET Book cover of The Advent Adventures with Father Nate.

Advent is about time. It is the start of the liturgical year. It is about waiting for the celebration of Jesus' birth, his first coming, with midnight Mass and presents.