Last year during Advent, instead of merely looking at a manger scene every once in a while, I began to pray with this visual each day. Instead of staring at a crucifix or contemplating another mystery ...

When you look at a manger scene, or crèche as some call them, you see a visual sermon that goes back to St. Francis of Assisi, we’re told. He arranged what today we call a “living nativity” outside a ...

(The Conversation) — According to his biographer, St. Bonaventure, St. Francis was the first to commemorate the birth of Christ by assembling a manger scene, complete with a baby Jesus doll that was ...

For years, when their children were growing up, Dusty and Emmagene Rhodes pulled out a nativity scene of the sort common in American homes. Each year, the children got to pick out an additional ...

MARSHALLS CREEK, Pa. — Quite the holiday display is up at Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort near Marshalls Creek. More than 100 nativities from around the world are being shown off. "It's completely ...

I am writing this with such hurt. Hear it is Christmas and I have been all over Moncks Corner and Charleston, and cannot find one Manger Scene for sale in all of the stores that we have to choose from ...

Figures of Joseph, an angel and Mary are pictured in the Nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Dec. 14, 2020. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen ROME — Especially in a year when the COVID ...