A detail of a Nativity scene displayed in St. Peter's Square is seen in an exhibit at the Vatican Dec. 17, 2024. Credit: (CNS photo/Justin McLellan) Growing up in Scotland in the late ’90s, I was ...

We all know the image. Baby Jesus in the manger. Around him, shepherds, animals, angels and three wise men: Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar. Two of them are white, one of them Black. Above them, the ...

In the run-up to the 2004 presidential election, common wisdom had it that there was something you were supposed to understand about The Passion of the Christ in order to understand the voters of the ...

It’s a well-known origin story: how the young and wealthy Francis of Assisi freely abandoned his noble patrimony to serve Christ’s Church as a poor, itinerant preacher. One of the world’s most beloved ...

"And laid him in a manger because there was no space for them in the guest room" (Luke 2:7). What happened to "no room in the inn"? Turns out, there may not have been an inn in Bethlehem after all, ...

One might enter a theater to see "The Nativity Story" thinking they know exactly what to expect. After all, like Mel Gibson's controversial "The Passion of The Christ" (2004), director Catherine ...

Kevin Costner is spending the holidays at the manger this year. The actor is hosting and narratingKevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas, a new ABC special that walks viewers through the Nativity ...

As Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” powerfully demonstrated, lots of people are willing to spend serious money to see films with Christian subject matter. “The Nativity Story” is attempting to ...

Around the Christmas season, it is common to see a display of the Nativity scene: a small manger with the baby Jesus and his family, shepherds, the three wise men believed to have visited Jesus after ...