The goal of Advent is to grow in holiness, to grow closer to the Holy family and become a holy family ourselves. Christ is ...

Father Robert J. Hater provides four steps for Christian discipleship that we can focus on during the Advent season.

A prelate blesses the coffin during the funeral ceremony for Cardinal Jozef Tomko presided by Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. (Credit: Gregorio ...

Advent's Lent-like waiting period is exactly why churches do not immediately whip out Christmas trees at the end of Ordinary ...

It was for them a kind of Advent. The disciples of John the Baptist were eager to see the Messiah. The story Matthew tells is ...

In the past, the obligation to attend Mass on a transferred holy day of obligation was not transferred along with the feast day when it fell on a Monday. A firefighter in Rome pays tribute to the ...

“Dear friends, Advent is the season of the presence and expectation of the eternal. For this very reason, it is in a ...

Q: My dad gives up chocolate every year for both Lent and Advent. I always tell him that this is weird and that we're not supposed to give things up for Advent, only Lent. Which one of us is right ...

As Advent approaches, families bring out their boxes of Christmas decorations and set out the Advent wreath. But consider a ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the start of Advent on Saturday with an appeal for unity and peace, telling thousands gathered for Mass ...

With their different rites, cultures and languages, Catholics find a unity around the altar that "is a gift from God," Pope Leo XIV said.

Speaking to Turkey’s small Catholic minority during mass Saturday afternoon, Pope Leo stressed the need to work for peace and ...