That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master craftsmen, has now ...

A stature of the Baby Jesus has returned to the Vatican's 'presepe', or Nativity Scene, in the Saint Paul VI Hall, but not ...

Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School, and the author most recently of ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After receiving backlash from Jewish groups, the Vatican chose to not put the keffiyeh back in its ...

He is appointing Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian nun, to become prefect of the Vatican department responsible for all the ...

On the Solemnity of the Epiphany, Pope Francis said Christians should seek “to recognize Jesus close to us,” including in the ...

The Vatican's nativity scene reopens to the public, but without the controversial Palestinian symbol.

I mean stories which were important but which didn’t generate a lot of buzz, either in the mainstream media or the ...

The idea of the Baby Jesus on the symbolic cloth eventually reached the Vatican: on December 7, some nativity scenes were installed in the Paul VI Hall, including the one from Bethlehem.

The appointment marks a major step in Pope Francis’ aim to give women more leadership roles in governing the church.