Read about Torie Bosch’s personal account of celebrating and recognizing Christmas as a secular holiday.

Read the opinion of Annie L. Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, to remove Christmas as a federally recognized holiday and replace it with a more secular holiday.

Read a Dec. 21, 2000, Associated Press story posted by the Cincinnati Enquirer about a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that Christmas can continue to be a legal holiday, as it has been since 1870, because it has a secular purpose.

Read a Feb. 17, 2013, New York Times article about the debate over religious federal holidays in the U.S.

A segment on the web site About.com looks at the legal questions surrounding making Good Friday a state holiday.

Read about the decline of Hispanic-Catholic community that was once booming in this Feb. 26, 2013 Public Religion Research Institute article.

Read a New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia entry on the history of the Way – or Stations – of the Cross.

Read an Atlanta Journal-Constitution story from April 2, 2004 about Archbishop John F. Donoghue order of priests from that archdiocese to not wash women’s feet.

Read a March 27, 2013, National Catholic Register post on answering the questions about Holy Thursday.