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Israeli Prime Minister Sends Christmas Message to Christians

Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 26, 2014 at 6:15 am
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, sent a Christmas video message to Christians in Israel and the Middle East. The Christmas holiday, he said, "is a special...

Pope calls refugees in Iraq, sends special Christmas greetings to Korea

Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 26, 2014 at 6:13 am
On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis sent a video message to Catholics in Korea. The Pontiff, who visited South Korea in August, said, "I pray the Lord that the light, shining on the...

Top Dozen Church-State and Religious Liberty Developments In 2014

The Religion Clause - Dec 26, 2014 at 6:10 am
Each year in December, I attempt to highlight the most important  Church-State and Religious Liberty Developments of the past year.  Usually I identify the top ten stories.  This...

Members of Congress: Abortion funding breaks health care law promise

EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 26, 2014 at 6:06 am
Washington D.C., Dec 26, 2014 / 06:06 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- More than 75 members of Congress have written the Obama administration emphasizing that abortion coverage must be billed...

Employment Discrimination Claim Filed By Muslims Against Hertz In Minneapolis

The Religion Clause - Dec 26, 2014 at 6:05 am
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports on an employment discrimination lawsuit filed Tuesday against Hertz Corp. by five Somali-American Muslims and an Ethiopian Muslim, all of whom...

Jehovah's Witness Title VII Claim Survives Summary Judgment Motion

The Religion Clause - Dec 26, 2014 at 6:00 am
In Shepherd v. Gannondale, (WD PA, Dec. 22, 2014), a Pennsylvania federal district court refused to grant summary judgment to defendant, a Catholic residential care facility, in a...

Myanmar: Church emerging from decades of repression

Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 26, 2014 at 5:50 am
Civilian rule in Myanmar (Burma) has allowed the Church to emerge from the shadows, according to an Agence France-Presse report. The year 2014 saw the first beatification of a...

China: crosses torn down from 400 churches

Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 26, 2014 at 5:33 am
In recent months, Communist officials have removed crosses from 400 over churches in the east-central Chinese province of Zhejiang, the Associated Press reported. "They keep a...

Daily Reflection — Laying Down Our Lives

Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 26, 2014 at 5:30 am
As they were stoning Stephen, he called out “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” (Acts 7:59). Just yesterday, we began our observance of Christmastide by celebrating the Nativity of...

Indiana diocese ordered to pay $1.95M in IVF-dismissal case

Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 26, 2014 at 5:19 am
Following over 51 hours of jury deliberation, a federal district court has ordered the Diocese of Fort Wayne � South Bend to pay a former Catholic school teacher $1.95 million in...

Daily Gospel Reflection for December 26, 2014

CatholicMom.com - Dec 26, 2014 at 5:00 am
  Today’s Gospel: Matthew 10: 17-22 Jesus is again reminding the disciples that there will be times of persecution and division ahead – brother against brother, father against...

Catholic University of America Launches New ‘Honoring Mary’ Website

Catholic Education Daily - Dec 26, 2014 at 4:59 am
The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., has launched a new website titled "Honoring Mary" that supplies information on the many events being held to complement the...

Christendom Student Receives Honor from Bishop for Pro-Life Work

Catholic Education Daily - Dec 26, 2014 at 4:00 am
Thomas Hepler, sophomore class president and president of the pro-life campus group Shield of Roses, was recognized along with 45 other individuals at the recent Youth and Campus...

Catholic Quote of the Day — from St. Augustine of Hippo

Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 26, 2014 at 3:30 am
“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.” (St. Augustine of Hippo) August 28 is the Memorial...

Archbishop Eamon Martin's Christmas Homily

Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 26, 2014 at 3:04 am
Here is the homily delivered by Archbishop Eamon Martin, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland at Christmas Eve midnight Mass in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh...

A Christmas Truce

Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 26, 2014 at 2:56 am
Exactly 100 years ago this week, in the first months of the Great War that would begin the bloodiest century in human history, something miraculous happened. All along the Western...

Mystery and History Collide on Christmas

Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 26, 2014 at 2:00 am
When we consider the Christmas Miracle, it is worth recalling the fact that Joseph does not at once repudiate his betrothed, despite his discovery that she is pregnant with...

On the Feast of St. Stephen

Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 26, 2014 at 1:55 am
Here is the translation of the Holy Father's address before and after the recitation of the Angelus prayer to the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square this afternoon. * * *...

So Full of Win!

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 26, 2014 at 1:37 am
 
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