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The nativity stained glass window at St. Michael’s Cathedral is more than a century old, but it has been cleaned, restored and practically reconstructed.

St. Michael's Cathedral getting a Christmas makeover, too

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St. Michael’s Cathedral looks like an old church. But sit down in a confessional and take a deep breath.

Msgr. Vincent Foy cuts the cake for his 100th birthday celebration with Cardinal Thomas Collins sharing the moment.

Msgr. Foy shares his more than a century of Christmas wisdom

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God-willing, this will be my 102nd Christmas on Earth (if you count the one when I was an unborn child) and my 77th Christmas as a priest.

Bonnie DeSilva hands a plateful of breakfast to a guest during St. Stephen-in-the-Fields' Saturday breakfast program.

Eggs, ham, warm welcome all part of breakfast program

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The holiday season can be an isolating time for those who are living on the breadline. When you don’t know where your next meal is coming from, it is comforting to know that the Church of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields can be a place of refuge and community.

A woman holds a statue of baby Jesus. In the Child, God became man on Earth.

Incarnation continues to be our beacon of hope

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There are a million Catholic complaints about Christmas.

Jasmeen Arcentales, grade 6, was the winner of 2016 Christmas Drawing Contest in the grades 4-6 category.

Winners of the 2016 Christmas Drawing Contest

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One of the joys of Christmas at The Catholic Register is judging what has become perhaps our most popular annual feature — the children’s Christmas drawing contest.

CAPTION FOR PHOTO: Fr. Galen Bank and Dennis and Angelina Girard hope to encourage parishioners at Ottawa's Blessed Sacrament Parish to make a Marian consecration at Christmas.

Priest encourages parish to make Marian consecration at Christmas

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OTTAWA – An Ottawa priest is hoping a book made for children can deliver a very serious Christmas message for adults, too.

Staff Arts president and choir director Anne Bolger conducts the group’s version of “O Holy Night” at the Dec. 2 Christmas concert. Soloist Gilda De Marco Melo is at the right foreground.

Staff Arts brings out Toronto Catholic school board's artistic flair

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TORONTO – September isn’t just the start of another school year.

Hikmat Dandan’s desk overflows with Christmas cards he receives each year from the Greek Catholic Patriarchate School in Beit Sahour.

Knights help Christian tradition stay alive at Bethlehem school

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Every December, a package from the Holy Land arrives on Hikmat Dandan’s doorstep. Inside are 65 hand-drawn Christmas cards in different shapes, sizes and colours.

University of St. Michael’s College’s Schola Cantorum founder, Michael O’Connor (second row left) teamed up with John Edwards (front row with lute), the Musicians in Ordinary and others for an Advent program spanning nearly 1,000 years of Christian music from the Middle Ages into the 17th century.

Ancient music sets stage for the Christmas season

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There’s no better way to get ready for Christmas than to open your ears to a little Advent music — not the jingles in the mall but music that slows time down just enough to allow for some peace and reflection.

A Swiss Guard is seen as Pope Francis deliver his Christmas blessing "urbi et orbi" (to the city and the world) from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Dec. 25.

Christ's birth can bring peace, hope to suffering world, Pope says

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VATICAN CITY - Christmas is a reminder that through the birth of Christ, hope and peace are possible and that only through his grace can humanity find peaceful solutions to the world's most difficult problems, Pope Francis said.

Johnnavin Rodriguez, 11, decorates a Christmas tree outside St. Michael Church in Rochester, N.Y., Dec. 16.

O come to church all ye faithful, sort of faithful and atheists, too

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December means curtains up for church Christmas pageants, hand-bell concerts, caroling kiddie choirs and Nativity displays on the front lawns.

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