Pope Francis carries the statue of the Child Jesus to place in the Nativity scene inside St. Peter's Basilica at the end of Mass on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2024, surrounded by children dressed in ...

Detail of the nativity ... contradict the Pope’s 2015 exhortation to “care for our common home”. Is there a way to bring our Christmas celebrations in line with Pope Francis’s expressed ...

Continuing St. John Paul II’s Advent tradition of blessing statues of the child Jesus to be placed in Nativity scenes on Christmas Day, Pope Francis blesses his and pilgrims’ statues on Sunday ...

I am also a man of faith, of Jewish faith, and as such, could not comprehend the [nativity] Scene as I saw it in the media.

Around the Christmas season ... people from disease. The Nativity story continued to expand within Christian devotional culture well after Francis’ death. In 1291, Pope Nicholas IV, the first ...

On Saturday, Pope Francis used his annual Christmas message to the leaders ... At the end of the audience on Saturday, he gave the prelates two books: one on the important of grace, and the ...

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI revealed a new-style nativity ... underwear on Christmas Day. The bomb failed to detonate and he was quickly subdued. In 2013, at the Vatican, Pope Francis, in his ...

Pope Francis has baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has become an ...

Christmas revellers around the world donned red and white Santa hats, offered meals to the homeless and lit candles on Wednesday, as Pope Francis launched ... Church of the Nativity's famed ...

Pope Francis leads the Angelus prayer and ... of blessing statues of the Child Jesus to be placed in Nativity scenes on Christmas Day, the Holy Father blessed his and pilgrims’ statues on ...

Hope lives, Pope Francis said in his homily for Christmas Eve Mass at the Vatican ... over Mass during the Night for the feast of the Nativity of the Lord after opening the Holy Door of the ...

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI revealed a new-style nativity ... underwear on Christmas Day. The bomb failed to detonate and he was quickly subdued. In 2013, at the Vatican, Pope Francis, in his ...