Carnival has begun, marking the start of the Easter season. Here’s when Easter, Lent, Mardi Gras and related holidays fall in ...

Just ten months ago, the Ross-shire Journal introduced readers to a determined young dancer from North Kessock. At only 10 ...

Parishioners gathered at St. John’s Church in Lima on Christmas Day to celebrate Mass and reflect on the meaning of Christmas ...

For Christmas she wears blinking lights or a Santa Claus outfit. For New Year’s she dumps glitter in her hair and dons a glamorous party shirt. (Dentler has been a basket of eggs, bunny rabbit and ...

Our country and the entire Christian world celebrate today the happiest day of the year for the whole of Christendom. We join in the festivities despite personal trials, family challenges, our country ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Joe Sternberg, Allysia Finley, and Kim Strassel. Walking down Sixth Avenue in New York recently, I was mesmerized by a Salvation Army dude with ...

In reference to the op-ed on the commercialization of Santa Claus and how many people didn’t know his history (“How Santa can become less commercialized,” Dec. 7), let’s take this one step further to ...

There are difference between nor'easters and typical snowstorms. The National Weather Service defines a snowstorm as "any storm that produces snow" which can form anytime, anywhere, rather than ...

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation. The Rapa Nui moai, the monolithic stone figures of ...

I recently returned from the annual Baltimore assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. One urgent message released nationally from this meeting was a letter, composed and approved in ...

PIECES OF EASTER is well-directed, well-written, and well-acted, and has a rewarding message. There is no foul language or nudity, but it does contain accidental violence, alcohol use, and a risqué ...

Halloween is only days away, and parents and children are flooding stores in search of the best costumes and the scariest monster, vampire and ghoul decorations. But the author of new children's book ...