Pope Francis opens the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica before Mass on Christmas Eve ... “a very significant beginning” for the Catholic Church’s holy year, which will conclude on ...

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 Tillman ...

As Christmas approaches, all through the world’s Catholic convents ... a professor of church history at the University of Navarra in Pamplona. Since the small-scale farming with which they ...

The song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol ... the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of the Church. Each element in the carol has a code ...