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Overlooked in nativity drama, Joseph is the quiet hero

By Peggy Fletcher Stack

c. 2013 Salt Lake Tribune (RNS) Imagine being Joseph, the husband of Mary and stepdad to baby Jesus. Your fiancée is pregnant and not by you. Her baby...

At Christmas, a rare collaboration to restore an ancient church

By Michele Chabin

c. 2013 Religion News Service BETHLEHEM, West Bank (RNS) Two weeks before Christmas, one of the most powerful storms to hit the Middle East in a century dumped...

COMMENTARY: The Christmas Wars are over, and Christmas won

By Charles Austin

c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) If there is indeed a “War on Christmas,” those on the anti-Christmas side of the war have lost—big time...

Remains of St. Marianne Cope to return to Hawaii

By Renee K. Gadoua

c. 2013 Religion News Service Syracuse, N.Y. (RNS) The remains of St. Marianne Cope, one of 11 American Catholic saints, will be returned to Hawaii, where the...

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ANALYSIS: Are free-market Catholics ignoring Pope Francis?

By David Gibson

c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) On one level, the recent clash over Catholic University of America’s decision to accept $1 million from billionaire...

2013 in Review: Pope Francis dominates the headlines

By Kevin Eckstrom

c. 2013 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) With his face splashed across the covers of Time, The New Yorker and even the gay glossy The Advocate, it would...

COMMENTARY: Pope Francis brings religion to the newsstand

By Sister Mary Ann Walsh, R.S.M.

c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) To paraphrase Shakespeare’s musing on a name, “What’s in a cover?” In the past week, we’ve...

Christmas in America: Belief in the Virgin birth and visits from Santa

By Cathy Lynn Grossman

c. 2013 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Nearly one in three Americans, including many with no little children at home and those with no religious...

Pope Francis names Peter Favre, his favorite Jesuit, a saint

By Kevin Eckstrom

c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) Giving himself a present for his 77th birthday, Pope Francis on Tuesday (Dec. 17) proclaimed his favorite Jesuit, Peter...

Minnesota Archbishop John Nienstedt steps aside while `inappropriate contact’ investigated

By David Gibson

c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) Twin Cities Archbishop John Nienstedt, already under fire for failing to take action against priests suspected of abuse...

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