For centuries, December 25 has been celebrated as the birthday of Jesus Christ, central to Christian ... is really certain of the exact year of Jesus' birth". So, why has this narrative persisted ...

The uncovered tombs, which were found to be made of marble, have a lot to do with Joseph of Arimathea — the biblical figure ...

Luke thus presents a ten-year discrepancy in the benchmarks he offers about the year of Jesus’ birth. Luke’s ten-year gap may relate ... The hopes that the world has for the Christ-child must be taken ...

Three years after ... the Virgin Birth makes intelligible how the Jesus whom Paul preached had only a Divine Father and only a human mother. Likewise the permanent dwelling in Christ of all ...

to that period of the year, during which the Church requires the faithful to prepare for the celebration of the feast of Christmas, the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ. The mystery of ...

How does this relate to the birth of Jesus? Fast forward a few hundred years to the writers of the Gospels in the New Testament. To confirm that Jesus was the Messiah sent from God, they referred ...