No matter how old you are, there's something about an advent calendar that really gets you into the festive spirit.

What's in the kit? 7 skeins of wool, 8mm knitting needles, the pattern, a smaller knitter's sewing needle, and the embroidered label. The best DIY Christmas nativity scene sets ...

A Tour de Italy with Chef Silvio’s hand selected gift basket, featuring all the items for a perfect stay at home Italian Dinner paired with a great wine selection.

This time, someone stole a decades-old baby Jesus statue from a Christmas nativity inside the National Shrine of St. John Neumann. The incident happened on Jan. 6. "There is not a monetary hook to ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Vatican had hinted the controversial keffiyeh would be put back in the Nativity scene on Christmas Eve. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After receiving backlash from Jewish ...

The classic nativity scene many of us have in our head might look vastly different depending on where you grew up, while the players might change, the story is still the same — a virgin — Mary ...

Ukraine's National Resistance Center (NRC) has reported that Russian authorities in the occupied territories of Ukraine have banned any mention of St Nicholas in educational institutions, as well as ...

In late summer of 1994, The Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute at the University of Dayton began an earnest effort to collect various contemporary cultural expressions of the ...

The nativity story follows Mary and Joseph from being told they will have a baby by the angel Gabriel, through to the birth of Jesus and the visits from the shepherds and wise men. The story of ...

God of every nation and people, from the very beginning of creation you have made known your love: when our need for a Savior was great you sent your Son to be born of the Virgin Mary. To our ...

With his letter, Pope Francis wishes to encourage the beautiful tradition of preparing the Nativity Scene in the days before Christmas. In keeping with the tradition, various Vatican dicasteries have ...