Easy to understand yet perhaps not so easy to always fulfill, the mission of the Catholic Watchmen is: “To call all Catholic ...

Catholic bishops in Illinois offered their support to a lawsuit from pro-life pregnancy centers that say a Prairie State law requiring those centers to refer women for abortions violates their First ...

I think non-Christians can be given a little slack for being a bit incredulous about the dogmatic claims of Christmas.

We radiate the life of Jesus to the world to the extent that we live with the conviction that we are divinely loved. Advent calls us beyond the false security of the merely virtuous person and into ...

People working at a kiosk on the first floor of Mall of America in Bloomington are selling merchandise and tickets to Vatican Unveiled, a Jan. 10 to Feb. 1 exhibit that will feature the largest ...

John Rajtar’s deepest passions come into focus at Christmas: faith and family, celebrated through cherished Polish traditions. The 68-year-old folk artist and iconographer decorates every nook of his ...

“The Nativity scene and the Christmas tree are signs of faith and hope,” he said to all those present. “Let the tenderness of the child Jesus illuminate our lives. Let God’s love, like the branches of ...

Cartoon characters can devolve into dullards over time. But some are more enduringly appealing than others, as the adventure "The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants" (Paramount) proves.

"Someone lost a boot!" As the story begins, my dad starts laughing. Every year he loves to retell the tale of the December we got a 16-foot tree to stuff in our house. One of us wound up crying ...

During Advent, traditional reflections remind us that our call to evangelize involves waiting and anticipation. As we move ...

Even in difficult situations and harsh places, like prisons, when people focus on caring for one another, respecting each other and offering forgiveness, "beautiful flowers spring forth from the 'hard ...

Across the street from the B.H. Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling along the Mississippi River in the Twin Cities, people gathered with paintings of Our Lady of Guadalupe on her feast day, Dec.