The choice to present Mary, Joseph, the three Wise Men, and even Baby Jesus without faces lies at the heart of the ...

On Jan. 6, many Christians celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany, when the infant Christ was revealed to the visiting wise men — the Magi — as God made man. Although Gospel accounts of the Nativity do ...

When I was young, each year at Christmas my mom placed a light-up Nativity scene on our front lawn. Surrounding Mary and Joseph and Jesus’ creche (left vacant until Christmas) were three large, ...

Hailey Nelson as Mary holding the baby Jesus, Mike Rosenow as Joseph, Camila Lindholm as a shepherd and Jerry DeChaine as one of the magi form the nativity during the CHRISTmas Journey at Bethlehem ...

Our Nativity scenes seem incomplete until the 12th day of Christmas when the Magi finally arrive at Jesus' crib for the first celebration of the Epiphany. Although Matthew is the only evangelist to ...

The afternoon celebration on Jan. 6 brought together a small crowd of believers, young and old, in the Latin Church of St. Catherine, part of the complex of the Basilica of the Nativity. On the ...

Christmas has many traditions, not the least being the Nativity scene, which depicts the infant Jesus surrounded by Mary and Joseph, the Magi, the shepherds, the angels and a few barn animals. For ...

The Feast of the Epiphany was marked Friday, Jan. 6, by Christians around the world, and will be celebrated in Masses at Roman Catholic churches in the U.S. this weekend. The feast marks the end of ...

Q&A with religious studies scholar Eric Vanden Eykel on the history, mystery, memes, and meaning of the wise men in the Book of Matthew. The answers, for many, are as easy to recall as the first line ...

The Magi arrived in Bethlehem this year bearing their gifts as the faithful held out their hands for grains of incense and drops of myrrh in the annual reenactment of the Epiphany by the Franciscan ...