On Dec. 16, we are just nine days until Christmas! The Church’s liturgy begins today to make a shift: the first part of Advent is far more eschatological, focusing on Jesus’ Second Coming and our need ...

TURIN, Italy — An Italian priest named Father Charles Vachetta is credited with writing a novena in 1721 to inspire his parishioners during Advent. Today, that novena is known as the “Christmas Novena ...

On Gaudete Sunday, Pope Francis celebrated a Filipino Christmas tradition in St. Peter's Basilica -- the Simbang Gabi Christmas novena. "In the Philippines, for centuries, there has been a novena in ...

The head of the Knights of Columbus is asking for the order's members to consider "a last-minute Christmas gift": saying a nine-day novena, starting Christmas Eve, on behalf of persecuted Christians ...

A large group of people walked down the streets visiting local churches and homes of their friends and families seeking shelter, and as they were ceremoniously turned away, they sang “Quien les da ...