The Catholic Courier’s 2025 Advent calendar will feature daily multimedia “treats” and a new contest for the entire family.

We do it because of this: The One who draws us to Church on any given Sunday. The One who nourishes our hopes, and who calms ...

G.K. Chesterton rightly says “it would be vain to say anything adequate, or anything new” about Christmas (The Everlasting Man). Chesterton underlines the caution any writer or speaker should have in ...

Join a Dec. 13 Advent retreat at the Cathedral Basilica for prayer, Mass, reflection, and Pope Leo XIV’s Dilexi Te.

Don’t look now, but Advent is already coming around again. And whatever scientists say, time is not linear, not a straight line from birth to death. It’s always looping back to decisive personal ...

For most Christians, today marks the start of Advent, a time of anticipation and preparation for Christmas, the Holy Day marking the very reason for the religion. And while it has deep meaning to the ...