Christmas is a favorite holiday of Pope Benedict XVI, and his Christmas meditations are among the finest anywhere. Here we offer his take on the silence of St. Joseph. In these last days of Advent, ...

Faith Baptist Church of Altoona — 6 p.m. candlelight service. The theme is, “Jesus Christ was Born to Die that We Might Live.” The service includes congregational singing, special Christmas music by ...

At Christmas, Christians look back in time to the birth of Jesus long ago, but we also are meant to examine ourselves intently at the present moment when that same Jesus endeavors to be born in our ...

I love yoga. For over twenty years now I’ve been practicing yoga as a spiritual and physical discipline and I’ve been instructing for almost as long. The Sanskrit word “yoga” means “yoke” and the ...