With the Holy Year 2025 beginning on Christmas Eve, the Vatican's 2024 Christmas stamps feature the Jubilee message of hope as well as a prayer for peace.

The song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas ... word for a religious reality which the children could remember. To fit the number scheme, when you reach number 9, representing the Fruits of the Holy ...

The American music critic John Sullivan Dwight translated the lyrics of this carol, one of the most dramatically beautiful Christmas songs ever penned, into English in 1855. In this arrangement by ...

For most of us, the halo of holiness around the word “Christmas” has faded ... is the fear that public acknowledgment of a holy day peculiar to a particular religion will be interpreted ...