MY PRIEST THE OTHER SUNDAY preached about Advent—no surprises there—and the tension between Advent’s waiting-period approach to Christmas, and America’s no-holds-barred commercialized celebration.

But with the 1940s came World War II and workers’ strikes, and Disney lost its foreign markets, most of its box office sales ...

(OSV News) — Just about everyone enjoys a Christmas holiday with all the trimmings, including Santa’s ho ho ho and Rudolph’s red nose. But the preparatory time of Advent can serve as an invitation to ...

It feels churlish, in this day and age, to come on the internet and celebrate Disney. Less a movie studio and more a terrifying global monopoly, the Walt Disney Corporation has grown so worryingly ...

Advent is a four-week period before Christmas that many Christians and Catholics observe, in preparation for Christmas Day. The season begins four Sundays before Christmas and involves weekly themes ...

ADVENT CALENDARS never used to be much fun. Each day in December, as part of the lead-up to Christmas, you would peel back a card door to reveal a Bible verse or a picture of a church bell. Only if ...

Not to alarm you, but we’re a matter of weeks away from Christmas – and already in Advent. Advent, which begins on the Sunday closest to November 30, lasts for four weeks. This year, it started on ...

LOS ANGELES — As the season of Advent begins, many Christians turn toward quiet reflection and preparation for Christmas. But in several Southern California congregations with large immigrant ...

Advent began yesterday. "O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!" the prophet Isaiah told us at Mass yesterday. Jesus urged us to be wakeful in Matthew's Gospel: "So too, you ...

(RNS) — ‘We live in a world where religion is too often used to justify wars and atrocities,’ the pope said. (RNS) — As December begins, we want to start looking forward to celebrating a joyful ...

Advent, from the Latin adventus, meaning “arrival,” is a four-week season practiced across many Christian traditions as a time of reflection and preparation leading up to Christmas. Emerging as early ...

Ask almost anyone, anywhere, and they’ll tell you that 2025 has been a hard year. We’ve witnessed global wars, school shootings and an alarming rise in political violence. We’ve endured a ...