In the weeks leading up to Christmas, the Rev. William O'Toole searched for real-life stories he could use in his Christmas homily. These stories, he said, can help people understand the Christmas ...

A Ukrainian serviceman carries his daughter on his shoulders, while people gather around a Christmas tree in front of the St. Sophia Cathedral, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Dec. 6, 2023.

The Christian faith of early 20th-century Irish author C.S. Lewis is enjoying a rebirth right now as American culture, and the wider Western world, appear to have lost a sense of right and wrong.

The annual challenge for clerics is to present a story listeners think they know everything about — the Son of God being born in a manger to a Virgin far from home — and offer something new, memorable ...

So you thought American Idol contestants were under a lot of pressure. How would you like to be in the pulpit on Christmas Eve? Hundreds of ministers in the Washington region will face packed churches ...

‘Put the needs of others first,’ Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York, will say in his Christmas sermon - Ian Forsyth/Getty The Archbishop of York will tell worshippers to put the needs of victims ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day ...

I called in at the butcher’s yesterday to buy some mince and he looked so frazzled that, in the spirit of one Christmas worker to another, I asked, ‘Sick of turkeys yet?’ No. His problem was not ...