Patrick Kidd is churchwarden of All Saints’, Blackheath, and Diary editor of The Times.

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Max Macmillan has been playing Timothy Turner in Call the Midwife since 2012 and has seen his character grow up from a young boy to a teenager who is now training to be a doctor ...

It might cost more to repair them than to buy new ones. But baby Jesus figurines have such sentimental value in families that ...

This is a follow-up to a thumbs up we printed in our Jan. 10 issue. It seems like the unexpected visit by a group of people ...

For the second time in less than a year, a historic church in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia is coping with an act of vandalism. This time, someone stole a decades-old baby Jesus ...

This time, someone stole a decades-old baby Jesus statue from a Christmas nativity inside the National Shrine of St. John Neumann. The incident happened on Jan. 6. "There is not a monetary hook to ...

With his letter, Pope Francis wishes to encourage the beautiful tradition of preparing the Nativity Scene in the days before Christmas. In keeping with the tradition, various Vatican dicasteries have ...

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Recreating the scene ... Christmas traditions. It has its origin in the Middle Ages, but came to bloom as popular culture only in the 17/18th centuries. Originally rooted in three centers (Naples; the ...