In late summer of 1994, The Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute at the University of Dayton began an earnest effort to collect various contemporary cultural expressions of the ...

The manger scene has a special place near the Christmas tree or in another place where family members can reflect and pray during the Christmas season. It is blessed each year on Christmas eve or ...

I have a simple Advent practice. I meditate on the creche, and I ponder what or who I might be in the Nativity scene. I’ve been cast as the stable more times than I can count, and ...

They were heavenly – and looked it. Meanwhile, the focus of the Christian message has shifted to more this-worldliness, as other nativity scenes have shown. Today, artistic taste gives preference to a ...

Laurel View Village residents got to display a nativity scene that was donated to the ... Linda Golden, Festival of the Creche organizer, said, "This is the first year we did this event, and ...

Then they would do it all over again for the next tour group that arrived at their campfire fresh off a hayride that was part of “The Road to Bethlehem,” a three-day free, outdoor Nativity ...

VATICAN CHRISTMAS: The Vatican illuminated this year's Christmas tree and unveiled the nativity scene for the holiday season on Saturday (12/7). The 95-foot-tall red spruce hails from a forest in ...