Do Catolics believe Jesus was born on the 24th or 25th December?

[Sonak]

I have a Catholic bible and have recently been baptised and want to know what the bible states about what day Jesus was born.

Any info would be very much appreciated

[Ethel]

The Bible does not state the date of Jesus' birth, but the Catholic Church, like all Western Christian churches, celebrate His birth on the 25th.

There is a lot of information on Google about this:
http://www.new-life.net/chrtms10.htm
http://www.christmas-time.com/ct-jesus.htm

I suggest you discuss it with your Priest, too.

[jno]

there's no special reason to suppose he never lived - what would be the point of all these followers just making up the existence of person they followed? It seems much more plausible that there was indeed a prophet called Jesus. Whether you accept his teachings or believe in the story of his birth and death is another matter.

[pinktwink]

Jesus birthday is celebrated on 35th when he is reported to have been born in a manger etc etc. Talk to your local priest

[frinster]

The mention of lambs would suggest spring time for the birth, although no date is officially given. So the christians nicked the winter solstice celebration from the pagans to have instead "no actually you're not celebrating your ancient phases of the seasons but our brand new birthday of our saviour celebration!"

I was thinking why didn't they nick a spring time celebration like imbulc, but they've decided to go with easter for that. Nicer poetic licence to it maybe.