I think non-Christians can be given a little slack for being a bit incredulous about the dogmatic claims of Christmas.

We radiate the life of Jesus to the world to the extent that we live with the conviction that we are divinely loved. Advent calls us beyond the false security of the merely virtuous person and into ...

"Someone lost a boot!" As the story begins, my dad starts laughing. Every year he loves to retell the tale of the December we got a 16-foot tree to stuff in our house. One of us wound up crying ...

Cartoon characters can devolve into dullards over time. But some are more enduringly appealing than others, as the adventure "The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants" (Paramount) proves.

“The Nativity scene and the Christmas tree are signs of faith and hope,” he said to all those present. “Let the tenderness of the child Jesus illuminate our lives. Let God’s love, like the branches of ...

Catholic bishops in Illinois offered their support to a lawsuit from pro-life pregnancy centers that say a Prairie State law requiring those centers to refer women for abortions violates their First ...

People working at a kiosk on the first floor of Mall of America in Bloomington are selling merchandise and tickets to Vatican Unveiled, a Jan. 10 to Feb. 1 exhibit that will feature the largest ...

Even in difficult situations and harsh places, like prisons, when people focus on caring for one another, respecting each other and offering forgiveness, "beautiful flowers spring forth from the 'hard ...

Hong Kong's prominent Catholic, media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai has been convicted of national security offenses under the city's controversial national security law.

After two gunmen targeted Jewish beachgoers at an event celebrating the first day of Hanukkah in a terror attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach, Pope Leo XIV said he is "deeply saddened" by the attack he ...

After Christmas Eve Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, Archbishop Bernard Hebda lightheartedly suggested that his seat should be auctioned next year because it was the closest one to the ...

As heightened immigration enforcement efforts continue in the Twin Cities, Archbishop Bernard Hebda issued a statement Dec. 23 urging all to “lower the temperature of rhetoric, stop fear-filled ...