Madonna is once again stirring up controversy with the Catholic church after she posted ... “I just wanna say, Pope Francis, Merry Christmas to you,” she adds. Both posts sparked backlash ...

While “Merry Christmas” can be traced back to ... in 1818 and was written by Joseph Mohr, a priest at the Catholic St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf. As Foley tells TIME, Mohr was “an ...

All was not calm, nor was it bright, on Catholic social media this Christmas. In fact, hundreds of Catholics erupted on X, Instagram, and Facebook after the United States Conference of Catholic ...

It is a giving time of year — a time for love and kindness, thanksgiving and generosity; a time for family, friends and merry ... the Catholic Church.) I realize this is not exactly a Christmas ...

An English bishop is pushing back after a church choir sang a “woke” version of a popular Christmas carol injecting ... U.S. version of “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” sung by the ...

WASHINGTON — People from all across the DMV spent their Christmas Eve at The Basilica of the National Shrine of Immaculate Conception, the nation’s largest Catholic church. Some, like Ellswer ...

and Christmas Eve vigil services the night before. The Catholic Church gave the holiday its name, with a Mass for Christ, or Christ Mass. “The very name ‘Christmas’ originates in the church ...