God of every nation and people, from the very beginning of creation you have made known your love: when our need for a Savior was great you sent your Son to be born of the Virgin Mary. To our ...

One of the things we put up as part of our Christmas decorations is a Nativity scene that we sewed together a couple of years ago. It has all the normal characters including the wise men (which we put ...

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A sculpted Nativity scene by Arnolfo di Cambio, the 13th century sculptor and architect, is now in the basilica’s museum. Like St. Peter’s, the basilica has a Holy Door for pilgrims to walk ...

(AP Photo/Luca Zennaro, Pool, file) FILE – Pope Francis leaves after a meeting with the performers of the living nativity scene of St. Mary Major, in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican ...

While the world mourns the passing of Pope Francis on April 21, the Catholic Church is preparing to choose a new leader.

Modern papal succession is relatively stable, but in the past ... with everything from graft around the annual nativity scene in St Peter’s Square to the dispersal of funds in the Vatican ...