Results of a poll of 9,000 Christian churches last December were released this Dec. 1. What Christmas carols made the Top 10?

People who hope to escape Haiti’s cholera outbreak and life-threatening insecurity cannot wait for a more welcome climate to emerge in the United States.

Dan Lipinski, one of the last pro-life Democrats to serve in Congress, calls on the pro-life movement to come together on federal legislation that limits abortion and supports pregnant women and their children.

Slovenian Jesuit and artist Father Marko Rupnik has been barred from hearing confessions or offering spiritual direction after complaints about his ministry.

Reflecting on the horror and the events of the intervening years, Msgr. Weiss said: “Gratitude sustains me. I pray a lot and try to keep myself in the Lord’s hands.”

Who is this King Wenceslas fella? What makes him good? And why does he merit a song at Christmas?

Stopping to gaze at and perhaps pray before a Nativity scene is one of the best ways to remember the real meaning of Christmas, Pope Francis said.

A Reflection for Monday of the Second Week of Advent, by Jill Rice

A Reflection for the Second Sunday of Advent, by James T. Keane

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, by J.D. Long-García