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The Nativity scene is unveiled and the Christmas tree is lighted in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Dec. 15, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Christmas creche, tree are signs of hope, pope says

Carol Glatz|Dec 15, 2025|3 Min Read

A painting of the prophet Micah by Giacomo Gavedoni (1577-1660) in the Chiesa di San Benedetto in Bologna, Italy. (Shutterstock)

Faith

Micah, the minor prophet who became a major part of Christmas

Mike Aquilina|Dec 11, 2025|4 Min Read

‘Census at Bethlehem,’ by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1526/1530-1569, Dutch. (Wikimedia Commons)

Four artworks that can change how we see Christmas

Elizabeth Lev|Dec 9, 2025|6 Min Read

“The Apostle Luke,” by Andrei Mironov, born 1975, Russian. (Wikimedia Commons)

Why Luke’s Gospel of Jesus’ birth matters this Christmas

Scott Hahn|Dec 9, 2025|3 Min Read

Jaroslav Čermák 1831 1878 Sv Mikuláš

Saint of the Day

Saint of the day: Nicholas of Myra

Angelus Staff|Dec 6, 2025|2 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV greets Canadian singer Michael Bublé after an audience Dec. 5, 2025, in the Apostolic Palace with the performers and organizers of the Vatican Christmas concert for the poor. (CNS/Vatican Media)

Singer Michael Bublé 'overwhelmed' to perform Christmas concert for Pope Leo

Cindy Wooden|Dec 5, 2025|3 Min Read

The prophet Isaiah depicted by Antonio Balestra (1666–1740). (Wikimedia Commons/De Agostini Picture Library/A. Dagli Orti)

Faith

Isaiah’s Christmas prophecies and ‘the Gospel before the Gospels’

Mike Aquilina|Dec 4, 2025|4 Min Read

People attend the opening ceremony of a Christmas market in Cologne, Germany, Nov. 22, 2021. (CNS/Thilo Schmuelgen, Reuters)

Thanking the Germans for our Southern California Christmas

Robert Brennan|Dec 18, 2024|4 Min Read

Catholic Charities’ Santa Maria location will remain open after an anonymous donor stepped in to keep its services running. Catholic Charities had scheduled the Santa Maria Community Services Center location to close due to a rent increase and lack of funding. Now, not only is the location not closing, but Catholic Charities is planning to expand. (Catholic Charities)

Have some charity for the charities this Christmas

Robert Brennan|Dec 11, 2024|4 Min Read

D.J. Caruso. (Shutterstock)

Could Netflix’s ‘Mary’ signal the birth of a new film category?

Robert Brennan|Dec 5, 2024|4 Min Read

Palestinian Catholics light candles before Mass at St. Catherine Church, adjacent to the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem, West Bank, Dec. 17, 2023, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. (OSV News photo/Debbie Hill)

World

Christmas celebratory again in Holy Land amid ongoing war; patriarch urges pilgrims to return

OSV News|Dec 4, 2024|3 Min Read

"The Adoration of the Magi with Saint Anthony Abbot," by Franco-Flemish Master. (J. Paul Getty Museum)

Sunday Readings

Solemnity of the Epiphany: Following the signs to Christ

Scott Hahn|Jan 5, 2024|2 Min Read

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