The Church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Family on the Sunday between Christmas and New Year (provided they are both not Sundays themselves, in which case Holy Family defaults to Dec. 30). Last ...

The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, celebrated on February 2, 2009, comes at just the right time this year, a time when we ought even more to reflect on the Jewishness of Jesus. Fr. James ...

Pope Benedict XVI marked the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord with vespers and explained that the presentation of Jesus in the temple reveals Christ as the light of the world. “In the encounter ...

A number of the medieval Flowers of Our Lady have been associated with the feasts or seasons of the liturgical year for which they are in bloom, and for which their characteristic forms or colors have ...

Parish elders know that the laughter should actually have come when the parents and godparents said, "Yes, we fully understand what we are undertaking." The seniors understand that life is a mystery ...

Last Thursday, while attending a charitable dinner for Children’s Hospital, I found myself in the company of fellow parents who knew the trauma of surrendering their child to the doctors to undergo ...

There is a “harsh” question of calendars at present between the Catholic and Orthodox and inter-Orthodox, Eastern rite, and Oriental jurisdictions in celebrating the feast of the Meeting of Jesus ...

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Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.