Christmas is full of symbols, and so is Easter. For whenever we touch a truth in our lives too close for words, we use symbols. A death in the family leaves us in tears, and no mother ever speaks of ...

He urged the faithful to resist materialism and embrace simplicity, reflecting on the birth of Jesus as a symbol of hope for humanity. Francis kneels as he leads the Christmas Eve mass in St ...

Rowley thinks of those bleak moments as her descent “down the well,” a path downward that eventually leads into ...

the region will lose not just churches and historical religious sites but its living memory of Christianity’s origin in the first place.” Christians attend a Christmas mass at the Lady of ...

While millions are leaving the organized Christian faiths, they’re not abandoning spirituality. Instead, they’re seeking ...

Superman was born Kryptonian, raised Methodist and sketched into existence by two Jewish teens in 1930s Cleveland. Faith and morality are his DNA. There are no overt religious references in Superman ...

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 that great day had every right ...

As Christians probably already know, the Bible makes no mention of a mythical hare who delivers eggs to children on the day of Jesus ... out to kids, just like Santa Claus on Christmas.

It was in the all-too-brief low season, between the last of November’s Biennale crowds and the first wave of Christmas tourists ... blood of the dead Christ; Titian’s Jesus, by contrast ...

The birth of Jesus is mentioned in just two Gospels, Luke and Matthew. Mark and John refer to Jesus’ mother several times. The Evangelists were writing 40 to 65 years after Christ’s death and ...