The death of evangelist Jimmy Swaggart was not only among the top Baton Rouge-area religion stories for 2025, but it also ...

“It’s a Wonderful Life” is loosely based on the 1943 short story “The Greatest Gift,” written by Philip Van Doren Stern.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his ...

Christmas under Donald Trump brought air strikes abroad and political threats at home, as the US president used the holiday ...

This is the meaning of Christmas. It isn’t just about the presents or the tree, or the family celebrations, but it's about ...

From the perspective of liturgy or the public worship of the Church, Christmas time begins with the Vigil Mass on December 24 ...

'Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy ...

COMMENTARY: The first witnesses to the messianic birth are not the great and the good but the lowly shepherds.

When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife.

And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the ...

The novelist and musician is a voracious reader of books in translation. In “This Year,” he annotates the literary lyrics to ...

Last week, I was reading journal articles to add to my list of references for a new research article I’m working on. I had a ...