The scene representing the birth of Jesus is a common December sight, artfully arranged on church lawns or entryways across ...

Not until the Christmas they were in kindergarten and second grade. With the December scholastic film festival concluded, my ...

Lesley Finn is an award-winning writer and visual artist. She teaches at Yale University and the Center for Fiction in ...

Occasionally one of my children will ask me, “Am I your favorite child?” This both elicits a laugh I don’t think they were ...

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in New Orleans, Louisiana, is nowhere near Lemon Tree Mound.So, it was something of a surprise a ...

Catholic Hollywood director D.J. Caruso set out to tell the story of Mary as seen through her own eyes, in a new film ...

Still, the menagerie around the manger reflects the Franciscan vision—there is a donkey and ox, as in Greccio, along with a ...

I was delighted to discover that purchasing a gift subscription solely to the Times puzzles is an option. The subscription ...

Stepping forward to receive the host, I spread out my palms before I remember these aide memoires inscribed in black biro, blots not quite scrubbed away. The leftnow sat awkwardly in right ...

Climate apocalypse seems to be our new shared reality. A 2021 survey found that 59 percent of teens and young adults were ...

In the final poem in the book, “This Is Not a Poem,” the speaker looks out over “hundreds of stone boxes” containing “all of ...

Alan Jay Levinovitz is a professor of religion at James Madison University and the author, most recently, of Natural: How ...