Pope Francis opened the "Holy Door" of St Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve on Tuesday, launching the Jubilee year of Catholic celebrations set to draw more than 30 million pilgrims to Rome.

Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve at Holy Name Cathedral drew a large crowd Tuesday night. Christmas caroling kicked off about 11:20 p.m. and Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blasé Cupich lead the ...

Placide Cappeau took the new song back to his home town of Roquemaure, where it was first performed at a midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, 1847 ... dates from 1855. “O Holy Night” is one ...

The man is facing numerous charges after popping up at two different churches, "threatening to harm parishioners," per the sheriff, and "pouring whiskey into the holy water." A Maryland man is ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional ... the top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land, noted the shuttered shops and empty ...

reenacting the gesture he performed at the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica two nights earlier on Christmas Eve. The opening of the Holy Door at the basilica officially kicked of the Jubilee ...

Pope Francis then presided over the Christmas Eve mass in St Peter's ... Over the course of the next few days, Holy Doors will be opened in Rome's three major basilicas and in Catholic churches ...