Here are seven often-missed details in the Nativity story — each one adding new richness to our understanding of Christmas.

We all know the Christmas story is one in which peace and joy are proclaimed. However, when I began to research my book, that ...

Layered beneath the familiar narrative are cultural, historical, and theological details that reveal just how intentional God ...

Spain's record-breaking nativity scene, featuring a 10-foot Jesus figure, returns to Alicante's Town Hall Square, drawing ...

Does the Gospel of Luke really tell the truth about the Nativity? Was Quirinius really the governor of Syria at the time of ...

Celebrating his first Christmas as the archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy during a Christmas Eve Mass on ...

The Greek myth of Danaë and Perseus shaped ancient debates about the virgin birth of Jesus and early Christian identity.

Pope Leo XIV Sunday blessed statues of the infant Jesus that will be placed in nativity scenes on Christmas day, pointing to ...

This nativity is a visual reminder...that the attacks on our immigrant neighbors are attacks on God's own self,” Urban ...

For generations, Italian craftspeople have built scenes depicting Jesus’ birth, sometimes including figures of contemporary ...