Much-revered Mahatma Gandhi reminded Christian missionaries that "a life of service and uttermost simplicity is the best preaching" to people living in this part of the world.

Francis, the comic strip: Brother Leo and Gabby discuss how to welcome God in our world.

St. Hildegard said her cookies of joy "calm all bitterness of the heart and mind, open your heart and impaired senses, and make your mind cheerful." In this Christmas season, we need to revive these cookies of joy.

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" is one of our nation's most beloved seasonal traditions. Experts weigh in on what it took for Charles M. Schulz to keep the Gospel reading in the script — and why it matters that he did.

Listen: Being a woman in the Catholic Church, a nun who insists on asking difficult questions and holding those in power to account for what they say and do, can make for a sometimes lonely, difficult life. So why does Sister Joan stay?

At least 13 people, including four children, were killed in two separate stampedes in Nigeria as large crowds gathered to collect food and clothing items distributed at annual Christmas events.

En un mundo marcado por la incertidumbre de la guerra, la violencia y la división, el Adviento surge como una invitación a la esperanza y al silencio transformador. Hermanas católicas de diversos contextos —Siria, Nigeria, Ucrania, América Latina— comparten cómo este tiempo litúrgico ilumina caminos de fe y resiliencia, recordándonos que la promesa de Emmanuel sigue viva en medio del caos. "Dios transformará nuestro dolor, nuestras lágrimas en alegría", expresó una de las religiosas. 

"You have become the light of our Church in the entire world," Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa told Gaza Christians Dec. 22 during a pre-Christmas visit aiming to bring the joy of the season to the suffering Christian community in the Gaza Strip.

Victor Genina Cervantes, director of integral human development at Caritas Internationalis, the umbrella organization for national Catholic charities around the world, presented the campaign "Turn Debt into Hope" at a Vatican news conference Dec. 23, the eve of the opening of Holy Year 2025.

President Joe Biden announced Dec. 23 that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 men convicted of murder who will now serve life imprisonment sentences without parole.