James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a ...

At an event sponsored by the Domenico Bartolucci Foundation, Pope Leo XIV said that polyphony is a musical form “full of ...

Flag Day is June 14. What does it represent? What do we cherish in this nation of ours? In the words of John Denver, it could be "... poems, prayers ...

Fr Gerry McFlynn reflects on the Feast of Pentecost, a celebration not only of the birth of the Church but also of the call ...

Next summer these United States will celebrate our 250th birthday which is quite an accomplishment for what Abraham Lincoln called this, “… new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to ...

Written around 40 BC, during the turbulent era following Julius Caesar’s assassination, this poem envisions the birth of a miraculous child destined ... to the Sibyls as foretelling the coming of ...

Ramram Basu's devotion and knowledge of Christianity, particularly his devotional poetry on Jesus, strengthened Thomas's firm belief that the mission was on the right path. At Carey's request ...

Pagels recalls reading a headline that suggested she was attempting to debunk elements of Jesus’s birth — the new book ... especially poetry. I love poetry and biographies.

Rossetti’s “Love Came Down at Christmas” has simple verses that equate the birth of Jesus Christ as love sent from heaven itself, but it’s this simplicity that makes this Christmas poem so ...

Mark doesn’t mention Jesus’s birth and says little about his family ... Miracles are useful insofar as we take their poetry seriously. We are talking about encounters with the Almighty.

He says every day when he was growing up, his parents would recount the miraculous story of his birth, which seemingly ... whether it was songs or poems or short stories…. And so it was that ...

Anglican Bishop of Diocese of Lagos West , Rt. Rev James Odedeji has described the birth of Jesus as the most remarkable event in the history of mankind. Rev. Odedeji spoke yesterday while ...