✈️ Save me a seat! On our way to Christmas, we stop in Portugal for a tradition that is shared by other cultures as well. The observance of saving an empty seat or plate for another is one that hits close to home, quite literally around your dinner table.

✈️ An unlikely tradition evolved in Japan some decades ago, an answer to a problem. The answer? Fried chicken of course!
Warning: you may get hungry while watching this video.

Did you know that in addition to being our Auxiliary Bishop, Bishop Betancourt is also the chair of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee on the Translation of Scripture? In this interview with OSV News, Bishop Betancourt discusses the Catholic American Bible, which is set to replace the New American Bible Revised Edition in 2027.

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Bishop: New Bible translation shows ‘God never changes, but always has something new for us’

The Catholic American Bible is set to replace the New American Bible Revised Edition in 2027, becoming the common text for the Mass lectionary, Liturgy of the Hours and private use.

In this 50th episode, Archbishop Coyne chats with our new Chancellor, Felix Menendez about his position to which he’s newly appointed. They talk about the ins and outs of Canon Law and give an interesting explanation of excommunication that you may have never heard!

✈️ We adventure to our farthest southern locale, New Zealand, to bark up a different type of Christmas tree than we may be used to. While the Pōhutukawa is very well known in that country, the size doesn’t necessarily allow it to be an indoor fixture for the season.

St. Lucian’s Residence, a residential senior living facility in New Britain, has provided a dignified and caring home for more than a century – with daily Mass and other spiritual perks.

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St. Lucian’s Residence Counts 100 Years of Senior Living with Spiritual Perks – Archdiocese of Hartford

St. Lucian’s Residence Counts 100 Years of Senior Living with Spiritual Perks Archdiocese News | December 17, 2025 From left to right, Luc A. Ouellette, Kasimier (Kaz) Marchut, and Sister Mary Lucille Banach gather in the foyer of St. Lucian’s … Continue reading

✈️ Don’t fill up on Christmas food because we still have some desserts to enjoy! Today in France we learn about a tradition from the 1920s that anyone with a sweet tooth would enjoy.

✈️ Rolling into Venezuela today! Las Patinatas has been a fun tradition there for decades. Started as a quicker and more fun way to get to Christmas Mass, and now it’s a fun way to pay homage to the past while while skating into the future.

✈️ You may need to take a different type of trip to end up here…but sure enough, Christmas has leaked into this game! The Feast of Winter Veil has many Christmas-y themes, even in this fantasy world of Azeroth. Collecting holiday items and earning presents are among the objectives, but in our real life how do we understand what the true… Read more