Everyone knows that gratitude and appreciation lie at the heart of Thanksgiving, but between all the rushing around to prep a delightful Thanksgiving menu, putting up fall decorations, and even making ...
Fr. José Cabrera's interactive Bible Museum offers visitors the opportunity to handle facsimile copies of ancient texts including cuneiform tablets from the 15th century BC.
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The Holy Spirit is present throughout the Nativity story. So why is the third person of the Trinity absent from our Christmas ...
After its account of Jesus’ birth, the Bible is almost entirely silent on his childhood. Yet legends about Jesus’ early years ...
When you think of Thanksgiving Day, what is the first thing that comes to mind? For many of us, it's the feast and the gathering of family and friends. It's a tradition that we have come to love and ...
I arrived in Milan shortly after beginning my new assignment in Italy. I’m a Dominican friar from Indiana, and I needed to learn Italian! I enrolled in an Italian language school so I could sound a ...
The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas. The First Thanksgiving, 1621, by Jean Leon Gerome ...
These days, Christmas is hard to miss and nearly impossible to avoid. But at various times it has been banned in different countries, including Britain. This is the story ...