True faith rejoices in knowing that the life we celebrate at the stable in Bethlehem is the real answer to death.

With places fully booked at Paris’ iconic cathedral for months ahead, Notre Dame is not only back to its former glory but also to its full concert schedule.

A funeral Mass for Franciscan Sister ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Marietta Culhane will be offered 11 a.m. Jan. 10 at Assisi House in Aston, Pa. Sister Marietta died Jan. 6. She was 94 and had been a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for 71 years. 

Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez of Philadelphia has announced a new initiative to open hearts, rather than shutter parishes, in countering declining numbers both of faithful and of active priests in an archdiocese he has long called home.

A crucial meeting of the India-based Eastern Catholic Syro-Malabar Church’s synod of bishops began amid a simmering decades-old liturgy dispute over the rubrics of Mass.