Luke's Gospel tells the most-beloved version of the story of Jesus' birth to the virgin Mary, from the angel Gabriel's ...

Does the Gospel of Luke really tell the truth about the Nativity? Was Quirinius really the governor of Syria at the time of ...

The Bible tells an overall story about the history of the world: creation, fall, redemption and Last Judgement. But who wrote ...

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, which is called Bethlehem (because he was of the house and lineage of David) to be taxed with ...

Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart” In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinus was ...

The Nativity story continued to expand within Christian devotional culture well after Francis’ death. In 1291, Pope Nicholas ...

The Southeast Missourian shares the timeless Christmas story from the Gospel of Luke, recounting the humble birth of Jesus in ...

Kristof: So let’s go back to the Nativity. Of the four Gospels, two describe the virgin birth of Jesus and two don’t mention ...

A few weeks ago, the renowned Jesuit composer Fr. Manoling Francisco gave an Advent recollection at the Our Lady of Pentecost ...

Contemporary retellings of the Nativity story often weave together both narratives found in the Gospel of Matthew and the ...

Interestingly, when the angel Gabriel first appeared to Mary and mentioned the idea of a virgin birth, she had trouble with ...

The First Five Hundred Years,” Paula Fredriksen explores how a localized sect became a universal Roman church.