This Advent season, a leading expert on Christian persecution around the world and religious freedom issues weighed in on how to stay rooted in faith and key values — and how to remain focused on the ...

"And what I say to you I say to all: Watch" (Mark 13:37). This verse is from the Gospel of Mark, one of the three synoptic Gospels. The Gospel of Mark is attributed to St. Mark the Evangelist and is ...

The word "advent" means "coming," and the month of December is the season of Advent where we wait expectantly and get our hearts ready for Christmas and the celebration of Christ's birth. A way to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) — The holiday season is incoming, ...

Advent is a time to awaken the soul in anticipation. It is a time when we pay attention and focus ourselves as we move slowly towards the mystery of the incarnation. As we begin Year B in the ...

Advent is a season in which memory, time, and expectation are fused in surprising ways. It calls us to look back to the past, forward to the future, upwards to heaven, and downwards to earth. It is a ...

When the ripples of the festive season begin to show in stores, so does my excitement. But until Christmas morning, there is nothing more exciting than an Advent calendar. My very first Advent ...

I came to myself in a dark wood, For the straight way was lost (“Inferno,” 1.1). It is perhaps the primordial moment of the spiritual life, a sudden sense that we have lost the way and now must find ...

It’s nearly that time of year again when we get to open tiny little doors on a box to reveal tiny treats inside like some kind of delicious countdown. This year our fave besties at Gelato Messina have ...

(NEXSTAR) — The holiday season is incoming, and for those who are of Christian faith, so too is the sacred time of Advent. And for the very first time ever, Burger King is giving customers a way to ...