In our increasingly secular country, the biggest holiday of the year is still Christmas, which, if you think about it, is pretty wonderful.

With "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" (Disney), the most popular series in film history resurfaces after a 10-year hiatus. This is the seventh installment in the franchise as well as the first feature in a planned third trilogy. Like its predecessors, it's essentially a family-friendly p

Vice President Joe Biden stole the show at a Georgetown University program promoting peace in wake of terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.

Pope Francis has opened the door to the canonization of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta He did so this afternoon Dec 17 when he recognized the miraculous cure of a Brazilian man that took place at the end of 2008 nbsp The news was broken unofficially this evening by the Italian Catholic daily

When we enjoy our outrage and savor Martin Shkreli’s defeat, we might not notice that such outrage is, in this case, the voice of conscience.

European finance experts said the Vatican has addressed "most of the technical deficiencies in its legislation and regulations... However, there is a need now for the anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing system to deliver effective results in terms of prosecutions, convictions and confiscation" of criminal assets.

"In my parish, people are not happy. They worry about employment and housing and pensions for the retired, and they fear these things aren't going to get the same attention in the new government as they did in the old government [of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner]," said Jesuit Father Rafael Velasco.

At the Vatican today a young girl presented a birthday cake to Pope Francis, who now finds himself 79 years young.

Latest Republican debate boosted Trump, ISIS and anxiety.

Where this peculiar style of doing electoral politics has touched public life in Britain, and caused a lot of offence, is his claim that the United Kingdom has a “massive Muslim problem” and that we are going to great lengths t disguise it.

Daily Advent Reflection, Dec. 17: So much does God love us that he willingly wades into the messiness of our lives and works there.

Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal urged moderate celebrations of Christmas this year because of the current political situation, but he also called for an end to the arms trade.In his Dec. 16 Christmas message, he urged a more spiritual holiday celebration and also encouraged all parishes to turn off the C

Michael Wear: 'It is critical that Christians find themselves not just in the comfortable corridors of our churches, but out there in the public square.'

For ages we have looked at the vastness of the night sky and wondered: Can we really be alone?

While the Paris agreement does not deliver the solution itself, it delivers a solid foundation from which the solution can be built. What matters now is political will, and the translation of this will into concrete action on the ground.

Daily Advent Reflections, Dec. 16: We need only pay attention to see many instances of God’s grace all around us.

Sith or Jedi: it's all about the small choices. So as a wise prophet once said, choose wisely.

Building peace, he said, is not accomplished by words alone, but through the grace of God.