IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy www.stillenacht.com By Richard Szczepanowski WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Exactly 200 years ago this Christmas Eve -- Dec. 24, 1818 -- in a little church in what is now Austria, the...

IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While St. Joseph was a practical, down-to-earth man, he had enough faith to be open to God speaking through dreams, Pope Francis...

IMAGE: CNS photo/Oscar Durand By Oscar Durand LIMA, Peru (CNS) -- Elide Pena, 55, grins when she talks about her favorite Christmas memory: the time when she fell under Santa's sleigh attempting to...

IMAGE: CNS photo/Mike Blake, Reuters By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In today's climate of mistrust, rejection and nationalism, the world urgently needs peacemakers and politicians who protect...

IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob Roller By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) -- It has been 25 years and counting, but Father Michael Shields doesn't have any plans to leave the mission of the Archdiocese of...