Visitors to the Carnegie Center in the Lorain Historical Society, 329 W. 10th St., now have the opportunity to see a creche. For clarification, it’s an opportunity to see a tableau. The gift shop at ...

Editor's Note: Please click on the photo's arrow to peruse the images in our Nativity gallery. The Vatican unveiled its annual Nativity scene this Advent season, paying special tribute to the origins ...

I love the peacefulness of the Christmas creche. Mary and Joseph gaze sweetly at the baby, while the magi look on respectfully. Still, despite the calm facade, these people figure prominently in a ...

If you traveled back to medieval Europe, 800 years ago, you’d recognize many of the ways we celebrate Christmas today. There would be lots of special foods and drinks, holly and evergreen decorations, ...

Christmas is my favorite time of year. It’s cozy; people from around the world gather around the proverbial fire to celebrate with family and friends; it’s peaceful (at least in theory); disparate ...

Stopping to gaze at and perhaps pray before a Nativity scene is one of the best ways to remember the real meaning of Christmas, Pope Francis said. "In its genuine poverty," the pope said, "the creche ...

The rumor is that the White House didn’t put up a crèche this year. That’s not true. What is true is the fact that the president and first lady considered not putting one up. That appears in a New ...

(RNS) — For the Rev. Carol Hull, it all started with a “beautiful” Nativity set, or creche, that her father brought home from a trip to Mexico when she was a child. Hull, now 77, remembers buying a ...

f you've never been to the annual Christmas creche exhibit at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Green Road in Ann Arbor, it's now or never. This weekend, the church will hold its 25th ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV unveiled his first crèches, or Nativity scenes, as pope on Monday (Dec. 15), a longtime tradition signaling the start of Christmas festivities at the Vatican. The ...