2023 ‘Buy Catholic’ Christmas Gift Guide Ideas for Men, Women, Children, Teachers and Friends The Register’s annual guide: Part 1 (photo: Shutterstock) ...

This weekend, Latin rite Catholics have an obligation to attend Mass on both Christmas Day, Saturday, Dec. 25, and on the following day, Sunday, Dec. 26.

But I think the message of Christmas is that God enters into it with us, and we're not alone in it. What I'm so struck by is that the story of Christmas is about a Palestinian Jew.

Below is the text from the Christmas Message of the Justice and Peace Commission Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land released on Dec. 18, 2023.

To ensure a holy Christmas, we must rightly order our priorities of the season to attentively wait like the shepherds, so that we may run to Christ at his coming.

CNA Staff, Dec 24, 2024 / 04:00 am There are numerous Christmas Eve traditions families around the world take part in, whether it’s watching a certain movie together, baking cookies for Santa ...

Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah fall on the same day this year. “Thank God,” writes Zibby Owens, the editor of “Being Jewish Now.” ...

Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan visits Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite Catholic patriarch, to share Christmas greetings at Bkerke, the Maronite patriarchate near Beirut, Dec. 27 ...

The Catholic Charities Christmas Store has been providing underwear, socks, hygiene products, clothing, toys and household items to those who need assistance at Christmas since 1973. It is located ...

Boys Basketball: Union Catholic plays Saddle River Day in the Paterson Charter Christmas Tournament at Paterson Charter in Paterson on Monday, December 26, 2022.

Ukraine's main Catholic church said on Monday it would move to a new calendar that would see Christmas celebrated on Dec. 25 rather than Jan. 7, amid an effort by Ukrainian institutions to break ...

Ukrainian couple Lesia Shestakova, a Catholic, and Oleksandr Shestakov, an Orthodox believer, will for the first time celebrate Christmas together on Dec. 25. Ukraine, like Russia, officially ...