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Debunked explores the pagan roots of Christmas and what the holiday really celebrates. Here's what shutdowns have done to the ...

Every year around this time, there’s an effort by some Christians to remind people that “Jesus is the reason for the season.” But Christmas, in fact, has several pagan predecessors, as The Baltimore ...

Though December 25 is the day Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the date itself and several of the customs we've come to associate with Christmas actually evolved from pagan traditions ...

You know the bumper sticker, of course. Around 350 A.D., you might have seen it on any passing chariot. Or plastered on the back of an ox cart. And if it wasn't, it should have been. Time to take a ...

A mum of four who thanks her teenage “witchcraft rituals” for helping her find love, now enjoys a pagan Christmas with her family – complete with a flaming Yule log that burns for 12 days. Gerdine van ...

For millennia, every December 25, Christians have celebrated the feast of the birth of Jesus Christ. As the Catechism says (525-526): Jesus was born in a humble stable, into a poor family. Simple ...

Constance Konold has lived in France for 50 years, half of that time in Paris, the other half in country villages bordering Normandy. But the Hoosier native continues to celebrate Christmas with ...

The manufactured furor over Melania Trump's White House Christmas decorations shows how willing we are to believe fake news. And the president makes us this way. Yesterday, Melania Trump’s impassioned ...

You know the bumper sticker, of course. Around 350 A.D., you might have seen it on any passing chariot. Or plastered on the back of an ox cart. And if it wasn't, it should have been. Time to take a ...