There was a chill to the night air as people waited in anticipation on a hillside in front of the Sisters of St. Benedict's Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand. Finally, a procession of candle-bearing children pierced ...
The Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board addresses a topic that has been on many people’s minds this Advent season: the recent oral hearing of “Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,” which may lead to the ...
For four years, the Vatican has hosted “100 Nativity Scenes at the Vatican,” which features handcrafted Nativity scenes from all around the world. While viewing images of the exhibit, Gretchen Crowe was reminded of the ...
WASHINGTON (CNS) — This year’s winners of the Missionary Childhood Association’s annual Christmas artwork contest “are missionaries through their art, as their drawings proclaim the good news of Jesus’ birth,” said Msgr. Kieran E. Harrington, ...
Doctor Greg Popcak asks the important questions about the Christmas season: “What is the real reason the Word became flesh at Christmas? What does the Church say is really the ultimate reason we are called ...
Adam Piekarski, a homeless man from Lódz, Poland, never imagined that the sketches he would draw in his free time while waiting for the public showers near Bernini's Colonnade would lead to the opportunity of ...
In a new heartfelt and very personal essay for Our Sunday Visitor, author and mother Diana Vallette writes that, in the past, she would cry on Christmas because, as she put it, “the stress of ...
In preparation for Christmas, Scott Warden focuses his column on how he and his family are preparing their hearts to welcome Christ: “As the holidays approach, one universal truth that we can all appreciate is ...
Some of the world's most iconic Christmas markets in Germany and Austria were forced to close shortly after or just before they opened, as COVID-19 infections surged across Europe. After the 2020 pre-vaccine, lockdowned Christmas season ...
“People must know.” Those iconic words spoken in the pilot episode of the worldwide streaming giant “The Chosen” are revisited with power and meaning in the show’s upcoming Christmas special. Announced via a much-anticipated live ...
ICYMI: Hand or tongue? Kneeling or standing? Either way, receiving the Eucharist should be an act of communion, says @timothypomalley in the latest installment of his series about Vatican II
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Hand or tongue? Kneeling or standing? Either way, receiving the Eucharist should be an act of communion
In the latest installment of his series exploring the gifts and promises of the liturgical reforms of the Second ...
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In this week's Opening the Word, @frjoshTX asks: Are we disciples on mission? Read the complete Scripture reflection:
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Opening the Word: Are we disciples on mission?
For the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Father Joshua Whitfield explores how we can apply the lesson from the Gosp...
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