One of my favorite parts of Christmas is the music. It seems everywhere you go Christmas music is playing, and many songs ...

O’Clock News/Maoz Tzur.” On “7 O’Clock News/Silent Night,” as the news report gets louder and louder, Simon and Garfunkel ...

The Holy Spirit is present throughout the Nativity story. So why is the third person of the Trinity absent from our Christmas carols?

Bringing fun, silliness, and even an unexpected musical number, courtesy of the iconic herself Janis Goblin (voiced by ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Philharmonic’s annual Festipalooza Concert is set for Saturday, Dec. 20 at 2 p.m., at Tottenville High School. The concert, which is free and open to the public ...

When our lives do not match the patterns we carry that define “peace,” we find ourselves riddled with anxiety.

Waiting. What does waiting look like? Answer: Living just and devout. Like Scripture says of Joseph. Like Simeon. It is, in the fuller teaching of the New Testament, being ready to be led by the ...

Ebenezer Scrooge doesn’t usually travel by scooter. For generations of Christmas Carol retellings, he’s sulked and trudged.

The show features an array of talent. Prince Fredrick is played by Joseph Dockree, who trained at The Royal Ballet School and ...

This Sunday's lectionary reading for Advent 4 in Year A is Matt 1.18–25. It is a short reading, but laden with significance ...

Jimmy Boyd, who first sang "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", was born in. The Catholic Church briefly condemned the ...

The “six-seven” shrug—so viral that it has been tapped as the 2025 Word of the Year by Dictionary.com—is the latest of the unending stream of nonsensical jokes, rituals, and competitions that spread ...