Of all the holidays celebrated in a year, Publix is only closed for three of them: Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. On the retail side, holidays are so popular, businesses try to cash in on ...

Easter netted $22 billion, which is paltry in comparison but enough to generate tons of chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps. Christmas is buoyed not only by commercialism, but by the tender ...

The question is, why Christmas, so much more than Easter — the central holiday of the religion? All four gospels have the resurrection story. Only two feature the birth of Jesus. And even they ...

Easter netted $22 billion, which is paltry in comparison but enough to generate tons of chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps. Christmas is buoyed not only by commercialism, but by the tender ...

But without Easter Sunday, Christmas would only be a fantastical story about a baby boy born to a young virgin. Instead, Easter makes clear Christmas is a staggering moment of God coming to earth ...

Many of these congregants have not walked into the darkened portals of a church since Christmas ... And I celebrated many Easter Masses at standing-room-only churches with these Chreasters.

Of all the holidays celebrated in a year, Publix is only closed for three of them: Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. On the retail side, holidays are so popular, businesses try to cash in on ...