We’ve got used to the rainbow flag fluttering aloft every public building, but this year the ‘wheels finally seem to be coming off the Pride clown car’, writes Gareth Roberts in his cover piece this ...

Since the sixth century, the Catholic Church has observed the Feast of the Holy Innocents on 28 December. The celebration stems from the Massacre of the Innocents, a Nativity narrative in the ...

On 28 December, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, churches across the region remembered children killed in war, particularly the 8,000 who have died in the Holy Land since October 2023. At an ...

Today the Church remembers the Holy Innocents, the children mentioned in the gospel of Matthew, chapter 2:16-18. When Herod realized that the wise men had tricked him, and were not returning to tell ...

Dec. 28, the Feast of the Holy Innocents or Childermas, commemorated King Herod's massacre of the male children of Bethlehem in an attempt to kill the boy he feared would replace him as King of ...

But it is a book to read, even if only briefly, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, for it to coincide with the Gospel reading of the day that should resonate with a present-day context. Call it ...

the mock ordination of a "boy bishop" on the Feast of the Holy Innocents (Dec. 28) and the passing of local Church leadership to its sub-deacons on the Feast of the Circumcision (Jan. 1), better ...

Amid the festivities and rejoicing over the birth of Jesus Christ, we mark today the feast of the Holy Innocents. Scripture tells us that King Herod had learned from the magi about the birth of a ...

December 28 is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, the babies of Bethlehem slaughtered by Herod in his attempt to kill a potential rival to the throne. And January 1, the eighth day of Christmas ...

Catholic charities and church leaders were among those who spoke out against modern crimes against children on the Feast of Holy Innocents on 28 December. Jesuit media highlighted how the story of ...

The festival was born over 200 years ago when plantation owners gave their enslaved workers the day off to mark the Feast of the Holy Innocents. The Feast marks the massacre of the children of ...