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Holy See calls for action on climate change

Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 24, 2014 at 6:22 am

At a recent United Nations conference devoted to climate change, the Holy See's representative said that "the critical problem of global warming is inextricably bound to the...

DC Court of Appeals Grants Default Judgment Against North Korea In Torture Death of Christian Missionary

The Religion Clause - Dec 24, 2014 at 6:10 am

In Kim v. Democratic People's Republic of Korea, (DC Cir., Dec. 23, 2014), the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit awarded a default judgment against North Korea to the family...

Report: priests tortured in eastern Ukraine

Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 24, 2014 at 6:09 am

Rebels in Donetsk, a city of 975,000 that has been a center of separatist activity in eastern Ukraine, have occupied 11 out of the 67 parishes of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic...

Court Orders Sikh Temple Meeting With Quorum Requirement Dropped

The Religion Clause - Dec 24, 2014 at 6:05 am

According to the Marysville, California Appeal-Democrat, a Sutter County, California state trial court judge last Friday issued an interim order in a dispute over control of a...

Jury Awards Catholic School Teacher Fired For In Vitro Fertilization Damages of $1.95M

The Religion Clause - Dec 24, 2014 at 6:00 am

The Fort Wayne (IN) Journal Gazette reports that a federal jury last Friday awarded former Catholic school teacher Emily Herx $1.95 million in damages in her Title VII sex...

Tunnel may be built under Manger Square

Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 24, 2014 at 5:58 am

To help ease automobile traffic problems in Bethlehem, a tunnel may be constructed under Manger Square. The Scotsman reported that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and...

Syria: Christian militia opposes government, Islamic State

Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 24, 2014 at 5:43 am

USA Today has published a profile of Sutoro, a Christian militia of 1,000 in northeastern Syria that opposes both the Assad regime and the Islamic State. "People don't consider ...

Cardinal Bagnasco: Cultural Myopia Leads to Ban of Nativity Scenes

Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 24, 2014 at 5:39 am

To ban nativity scenes in public places and schools in the name of respect towards other religions, and in the name of tolerance, “would be a deviant concept of what respect and...

The Man Who Saved Christmas

Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 24, 2014 at 5:35 am

In The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits, author Les Standiford points out that in the...

Unbroken: Gold Medal or Also-Ran?

Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 24, 2014 at 5:30 am

It was always going to be hard. The New York Times bestseller Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption touched millions with a tale that would be...

Daily Gospel Reflection for December 24, 2014

CatholicMom.com - Dec 24, 2014 at 5:00 am

Today’s Gospel: Luke 1: 67 -79 What a busy day Christmas Eve can be! But, oh, what a holy night! A silent night, until the angels sang out. In today’s reading, Zechariah has...

Pope Francis: Christ's birth more powerful than history of sin

EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 24, 2014 at 4:59 am

Vatican City, Dec 24, 2014 / 04:59 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The birth of Jesus – a light that shattered the world's darkness on Christmas night – witnesses to God's love for mankind...

The Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate: Serene and Ever-Faithful to Christ and His Church

Rorate Coeli - Dec 24, 2014 at 4:53 am

THE FRANCISCAN SISTERS OF THE IMMACULATE Official Notification From The Institute 20th December 2014 We prefer prayerful listening to The Word of God Incarnate, the only True and...

Catholic Quote of the Day — from Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 24, 2014 at 3:30 am

“Let anyone who comes to you go away feeling better and happier. Everyone should see goodness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile. Joy shows from the eyes. It appears when...

Merry Christmas from Verbum!

Verbum Blog - Logos Bible Software - Dec 24, 2014 at 3:05 am

We at Verbum wish all of our software users a very Merry Christmas! This is a picture of our team at our department retreat in November at the Archbisop Brunett Retreat Center in...

ADVENTCAzT 25: “If there is a child in your midst…”

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 24, 2014 at 2:07 am

Here is a 5-minute, daily podcast – today for Wednesday of the 4th Week of Advent, the Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord- to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for...

Tolkien for Christmas

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 24, 2014 at 1:59 am

The blunder of Evangelical Atheism is not that it thinks Christmas is a fairy tale… …but that it thinks fairy tales are untrue. Mythopoeia by J.R.R. Tolkien To one [C.S. Lewis]...

God rest the souls of the two police murdered in NYC

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 24, 2014 at 1:52 am

…and God bless their brave and wounded families who have called for calm. May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.

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