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January 2, 2013

Homily of Pope Benedict XVI on New Years Day

Making Things Visible - 4 months 2 weeks ago
Homily of Pope Benedict XVI on New Years Day. Mary the Mother of God.Dear Brothers and Sisters,"May God bless us and make his face to shine upon us." We proclaimed these words...

Jerusalem: Latin Patriarch on World Day of Peace

News.va - 4 months 2 weeks ago
(Vatican Radio) In his homily for liturgical celebrations on the Feast of Mary, Mother of God, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal said Pope Benedict XVI’s message for...

Audience: The true origins of Jesus

News.va - 4 months 2 weeks ago
(Vatican Radio) Pope Benedict XVI dedicated his first general audience of the Year of Faith with a question: “Where do we believe Jesus comes from? How can the small and weak...

Historic: dual ordination of priests and deacons

The Deacon's Bench - 4 months 2 weeks ago
Details from the Catholic Transcript:  Tears of joy flowed among family members and others as the Archdiocese of Hartford welcomed three men to the priesthood and five men to the...

Peace-building: it can work

News.va - 4 months 2 weeks ago
(Vatican Radio) In his Message for World Day of Peace January 1st, Pope Benedict hailed as "blessed" the peacemakers of today. Peace-building among communities and faiths has...

Youths Make Ecumenical New Year's Pilgrimage to Rome

American Catholic - Top News - 4 months 2 weeks ago
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Even with 45,000 people — mostly young adults — gathered in St. Peter's Square, one could hear the sound of splashing water from the square's two decorative...

Archbishop Nichols ends ‘Soho Masses’ after six years

Catholic Herald - 4 months 2 weeks ago
Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster has announced that Masses in Soho organised for gay people are to end. He also revealed that the church where the Masses took place will...

Hobby Lobby braces for millions in mandate fines

EWTN - US Latest News - 4 months 2 weeks ago
Washington D.C., Jan 2, 2013 / 03:55 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby says it is willing to pay fines of $1.3 million per day to follow its owners'...

The State Exists to Serve, Not Usurp, the Family

Crisis Magazine - Church - 4 months 2 weeks ago
We are approaching, in this series, Pope Leo XIII’s great encyclical Rerum Novarum, on the condition of the working classes.  I’ve been maintaining that it is impossible to...

How Same-Sex Marriage Suffocates Freedom (Part II)

Crisis Magazine - Church - 4 months 2 weeks ago
But the fact that silenced and marginalized church-goers actually constitute a majority only makes the process by which they are denied their full democratic liberties all the...

Robert Ballard is Going Looking for Noah’s Flood

Catholic and Enjoying It! - 4 months 2 weeks ago
or at any rate, the historical basis of the story. We’ve known for some time that there is evidence of human settlements deep under the Black Sea, suggesting that some sort of...

I’m Mark Shea, and I Approve the Human Slingshot

Catholic and Enjoying It! - 4 months 2 weeks ago
This looks spine-crackingly awesome.

Jesus' birth should deepen trust in God, Pope teaches

EWTN - Vatican News - 4 months 2 weeks ago
Vatican City, Jan 2, 2013 / 01:13 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The birth of Jesus causes joy because it gives us the certainty that God "works wonders in weakness," Pope Benedict XVI...

Hey Seattle!

Catholic and Enjoying It! - 4 months 2 weeks ago
Hello Catholic Professionals of Seattle, We wish you a blessed time as we prepare for the Lord’s coming. We also invite you as part of that preparation to register for the first...

Sister Act 2

Socon or Bust - 4 months 2 weeks ago
I can’t wait for the Conference. I’m getting ainsy.

St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory Nazianzen

A Catholic View - 4 months 2 weeks ago
The Saints of the Day for January 2 are St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory Nazianzen. St. BasilSt. Basil was born about 330, the oldest of four sons; three of his brothers became...

Spirituality: How do we know we are encountering God?

Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - 4 months 2 weeks ago
God is not one being among many; He is not a "thing" in this world. How, then, can we describe an encounter with the God who is essentially mysterious? Father Barron explains...

January 1, 2013

Book Review: The Cube and the Cathedral by George Weigel

Integrated Catholic Life - 4 months 2 weeks ago
For those of us devotees of Downton Abbey perhaps we should pause and consider the line that was drawn in the sand when the world pivoted and the Edwardian era came to an end....

Epiphany and the Fullness of the Catholic Faith

Integrated Catholic Life - 4 months 2 weeks ago
Up until now, all has been quite humble. A donkey-ride to a dusty town south of Jerusalem. Hotel rooms all booked up. Giving birth in a stable and laying the baby in an animal’s...

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