We have reached the third Sunday in Advent, known as “Gaudete Sunday.” In the Western church, “gaudete,” the Latin word for “rejoice,” was the first word of the appointed “introit,” or psalm of the ...

Every December, Americans go searching for joy. We chase it through crowded stores, pack it into our calendars and hope the season will somehow lift the heaviness we’ve carried all year long. But for ...

Advent is a four-week period before Christmas that many Christians and Catholics observe, in preparation for Christmas Day. The season begins four Sundays before Christmas and involves weekly themes ...

Advent, the season leading up to Christmas, is a time of preparation for the arrival of the Christ child in many Christian churches. There are four weeks, four Sundays of Advent, and this Sunday is ...

10 prominent Catholics offer ways to tap into the wonder of a child this Advent. A young Joseph Ratzinger is shown next to a copy of a letter he wrote during Advent 1934. (photo: Courtesy photo ...