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G.K. Chesterton on Santa Claus
Commonweal - Dec 24, 2014 at 2:40 pm It's Christmas Eve; Santa will soon be coming down the chimney, or through the window, or down a chimney Santa made himself and then made disappear (this my parents told me) for...
Comfort and Joy
Quartermaster of the Barque - Dec 24, 2014 at 2:37 pm
God’s love for us pours out in superabundance.
The Incarnation is for us. We are given to understand through the Incarnation that God does not seek slaves or servants, blind...
The Fact of Natality
Commonweal - Dec 24, 2014 at 2:20 pm "The miracle that saves the world, the realm of human affairs, from its normal "natural" ruin is ultimately the fact of natality, in which the faculty of action is ontologically...
Mom Delivers Her Baby Heading to the Hospital: “She Was Coming Out, There Was No Stopping Her”
LifeNews.com - Dec 24, 2014 at 2:18 pm A family from Iowa got a Christmas miracle in an unusual way. Jessika Thurman delivered her own baby in the front seat of a van while speeding down an interstate toward a nearby...
"The Lord Said to Me: You Are My Son...."
Whispers in the Loggia - Dec 24, 2014 at 1:55 pm Set to go live just before its 9.30 Rome (3.20pm ET, 2020GMT) start, below is the livefeed of the Pope's "Mass of Christmas Night" from St Peter's – the worship aid is available...
How to make your parish more self-centered!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 24, 2014 at 1:52 pm A reader alerted me to this. Pop over to National Catholic Register for a peek at an old (2011) satirical piece by Tim Drake about…
14 Steps to a More Self-Centered Church
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Some Women Take the Abortion Pill as Penance to Punish Themselves With a Painful Abortion
LifeNews.com - Dec 24, 2014 at 12:59 pm (LiveActionNews) — In an article in the Washington Post, author Hanna Rosin quotes abortion provider Kathy Rogers saying:
[RU-486 is] not just a pill; it’s a process. And it’s not...
Untitled
Whispers in the Loggia - Dec 24, 2014 at 12:42 pm The 25th day of December, the third of the Moon: Countless centuries past from the creation of the world,when, in the beginning,God created the heavens and the earthand formed man...
Pope to refugees in Kurdistan: “you are like Jesus tonight”
News.va - Dec 24, 2014 at 12:10 pm
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis this evening telephoned refugees sheltered in Kurdistan to express his closeness to them on Christmas night.
The telephone call to Father Benoca, who...
Pope’s Christmas liturgies at Vatican live on Youtube
News.va - Dec 24, 2014 at 12:10 pm (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis’s celebration of Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and his Urbi et Orbi blessing on Christmas Day will be streamed live by Vatican Radio on Youtube. ...
You are not 'lords of the manor': Pope Francis' tough words to curia
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 24, 2014 at 12:04 pm Vatican City, Dec 24, 2014 / 11:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis issued a strong message to members of the curia this week, warning them against careerism and urging them to...
Attorney: Court Should Keep Brain-Dead Mom Alive to Protect Her Unborn Baby’s Right to Live
LifeNews.com - Dec 24, 2014 at 12:01 pm An attorney for an unborn baby in Ireland told judges in the Irish High Court today that they should keep a brain-dead pregnant woman alive in order to protect her unborn baby’s...
Patti Smith at the Vatican – A Thrill of Hope
Catholic Vote - Dec 24, 2014 at 11:55 am A few of my friends on social media have groused this Advent about punk rock pioneer Patti Smith’s being invited to sing at the Vatican for Christmas.
I can understand why they...
Lest we forget: Christmas in the “Caliphate” of Iraq
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 24, 2014 at 11:51 am From Al Arabiya News: After a year of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria purging Christian minorities from its self-declared caliphate, Iraqi and Syrian Christians are facing...
Sitting in the Abortion Clinic Waiting Room to Abort Her Baby, She Left When This Happened
LifeNews.com - Dec 24, 2014 at 11:19 am (LiveActionNews) — Married with no plan of having children, Inga Wismer was very much pro-choice when she found out she was pregnant. Her husband, who was adamant about not having...
Pope Francis: God Is in Love With Our Smallness
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 24, 2014 at 11:16 am Jesus is born this night to assume "our frailty, our suffering, our anxieties, our desires and our limitations," because He is a God "who is in love with our smallness." This...
Obama administration lifts lifetime ban on gay men donating blood
LifeSiteNews - Dec 24, 2014 at 11:15 am 'Political and social concerns must not be allowed to trump the public health,' Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council said.
Poem: Deign at My Hands
Breviary Hymns - Dec 24, 2014 at 11:14 am Painting by Jose de Sarabia (1608-1699) - Courtesy of WikipediaDeign at My Hands is a poem by the English poet, lawyer, and Anglican Cleric, John Donne (1572-1631). It is the...
Merry Christmas from LifeSite!
LifeSiteNews - Dec 24, 2014 at 11:00 am !The entire LifeSiteNews family would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas!
