“Silent Night” depictions of Christ’s birth are unrealistic, as plastic as decorations that appear on lawns every December, ...

Stafford’s Meadow Farm in Montalba is now home of the Stabat Mater Foundation, whose goal is supporting Catholic religious ...

This passageway led Jesus from Pontius Pilate's sentencing to Golgotha, where the crucifixion is believed to have taken place. While Christian hymns depict this road as quiet and lined with olive ...

“Here in the beloved quiet vale”, as the pilgrims’ hymn says ... We see the marks of the crucifixion on his bare flesh. The left arm of the corpse is pointing straight down.

Bishop Robert Brennan ushered in the Jubilee Year by celebrating two Masses on Sunday, Dec. 29 — first at the Cathedral ...

And our photographers were mindful of a hymn writer’s memorable phrase, “All creatures great and small.” At monasteries half-way round the world from each other, a Buddhist monk in Bhutan ...

O holy Mother of God, remember us, I say, who make our boast in thee, and who in hymns august celebrate ... given over in the moment of the Passion [Crucifixion] to the apostle John as his mother ...

Everything I have and everything I do is now given completely to Jesus Christ.” “Why me, Lord? What have I ever done to ...