The patient perseverance, the waiting and longing, of these friends in Matanzas is an Advent parable, Ken Sehested says.

While serving, he used his high rank to perform a covert ministry, providing aid and comfort to Christian prisoners during ...

Years later, FX and Disney's Alien: Earth is finally fixing one of the biggest mistakes of Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. Alien: Earth wasn't a replacement for Prometheus, but it did ...

Sigourney Weaver has given an update regarding her return to the Alien franchise. Weaver is known for playing Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, with the character having appeared in 1979's Alien, ...

Advent is a four-week period before Christmas that many Christians and Catholics observe, in preparation for Christmas Day. The season begins four Sundays before Christmas and involves weekly themes ...

Advent began yesterday. "O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!" the prophet Isaiah told us at Mass yesterday. Jesus urged us to be wakeful in Matthew's Gospel: "So too, you ...

Ask almost anyone, anywhere, and they’ll tell you that 2025 has been a hard year. We’ve witnessed global wars, school shootings and an alarming rise in political violence. We’ve endured a ...

ADVENT CALENDARS never used to be much fun. Each day in December, as part of the lead-up to Christmas, you would peel back a card door to reveal a Bible verse or a picture of a church bell. Only if ...

This last day of November ends another calendar month and moves us closer to December 21, the winter solstice and the shortest day of the year, when we will be plunged into deeper darkness. Meanwhile, ...

(RNS) — ‘We live in a world where religion is too often used to justify wars and atrocities,’ the pope said. (RNS) — As December begins, we want to start looking forward to celebrating a joyful ...

In our experience, holiday magic doesn’t have to stop once the little kid years are over. While it’s already December and within the 24-day timespan of many Advent calendars, the good ones are still ...