I was pleased when I saw that Netflix was offering a new movie about Mary for the Christmas season. Her story is one of the ...

Netflix went beyond elaboration into the realm of fantasy. They created an entire prequel regarding Mary’s parents including ...

Esther Hamori, a professor of Hebrew Bible at Union Theological Seminary, makes a distinction between angels and other ...

Matthew, as one of the 12, would have been well acquainted with Mary. Luke tells us that he conducted careful research and ...

Rome has shifted into high gear for the opening of Jubilee 2025, a blockbuster year-long celebration in the Catholic world ...

Over the centuries, the Christmas story has been re-cast and romanticized into a kind of Christian “mythology.” But what do ...

The new Netflix movie Mary has a complicated relationship with its source of inspiration, often changing details mentioned in ...

Confirmation students served as narrators about the angel appearing to Mary, Bethlehem events and a visit from 3 (oops, 4) kings who brought gifts. The children completed the program playing JOY ...

The oldest is likely Mark — which takes up the story when Jesus begins his ministry. But it's only natural, Barreto said, ...

Mary and Joseph, answering a census, find no room at the inn in Bethlehem. Jesus is born in a stable and laid in a manger. Shepherds, alerted by an angel, visit the stable, as do kings bearing gifts.

Mary Magdalene may have been identified among the 300 tangled figures depicted in Michelangelo’s celebrated Sistine Chapel ...

Alongside familiar scenes from the Christmas story — the annunciation, the manger birth, the visit of the wise men — the film ...