Around the Christmas period, most families are preparing for the festivities by hanging decorations, planning dinner parties, ...

Our social media mocking hasn’t gotten us closer to what it really means to live in God’s favor. Social media has a way of hijacking perfectly good words. One years-old hostage is blessed, now ...

I recently led an opening reflection at a meeting of the faculty at Oxford College where I talked about blessings. The practice of offering blessings seems rare these days. There was a time when ...

One of the holiest days on the Christian calendar, Easter falls on March 31 this year. If you observe the holiday, chances are good that you're planning to spend the day attending service or enjoying ...

This year the month of giving thanks began on a sad note for me and my husband. The lovely Afghani family that we have grown to love over the course of the last nine months moved to Seattle, ...

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Pope Leo XIV Sunday blessed statues of the infant Jesus that will be placed in nativity scenes on Christmas day, pointing to ...

It was a simple message that might well have been delivered from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica by humble Pope Francis. But the venue was a school in New York City, and the speaker was Christine ...

Blessings “fur” the whole family! Members of the Catholic church celebrated the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi this weekend by taking their pets to get blessed. Parishes across the borough opened ...

(RNS) — The clinic blessing, held in Austin, Texas, is part of a long tradition of progressive faith communities supporting women making reproductive decisions according to their own conscience. (RNS) ...