When does the holiday season really start?

How the Italians and Scandinavians brought us the sweetest holiday celebration of them all

Her moment of obedience triggered two millennia of reverence

A number of venerable beliefs about Mary originated in a little-known book, the Gospel of James

The story behind the season’s most somber hymn

T.S. Eliot and the journey of conversion

How certain details of the nativity became tradition

'Tis the season when even the free-ranging revivalist pulls up a chair to the table of historic liturgy

Celebrating Christ's birth with saints of the faith from Christmas Day until Epiphany