25,000 children and pilgrim sang the pope “Happy Birthday” today in St. Peter’s Square.
Christmas
Posted inFaith, Your Take
How do you ground your Christmas celebrations in your faith?
We asked our readers how they ground Christmas celebrations in their faith during a season that can be hectic and distracting.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
A Yuletide treat recalls Venezuela’s Christmas past
Hallacas are unique among the other tamales popular in Latin America.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
Merry Christmas from the Editors of America
We at America Media are profoundly grateful to our readers, donors and supporters for sharing your gifts with us.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Sick of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’? Try these other Christmas films
Five movies to watch this holiday season: some familiar, some unexpected.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The War on Christmas: Past, Present and Future
The establishment and free exercise clauses prohibit the government from impeding or requiring observance of any religious holiday, including Christmas.
Posted inFaith, News
Is there actually a War on Christmas? Most Americans seem not to care.
Fewer Americans believe in the biblical Christmas story and a growing number are opting not to attend church services.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas—but they are cousins.
Christmas and Hanukkah share much more than the giving of gifts.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
In polarized times, should Nativity scenes try to make political points?
Several manger scenes in the United States and worldwide are being criticized for trying to make political points.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Noel the Ornament: The forgotten cartoon might be the Christmas story for our times
You know Dasher and Dancer, Rudolph, Prancer and Vixen…. But do you know Noel?