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Concern mounts in India over persecution of religious minorities

EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 19, 2014 at 5:35 am
New Delhi, India, Dec 19, 2014 / 06:08 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The rise in attacks by Hindu radicals against members of minority religions in India, primarily Christians and Muslims...

Daily Reflection — Never too late!

Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 19, 2014 at 5:30 am
“In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron. Both of...

The US-Cuba thaw is a triumph for Vatican diplomacy

Catholic Herald - Dec 19, 2014 at 5:25 am
The thaw when it comes in northern climes comes dramatically. We have all in the past been delighted by nature programmes on television at the moment in which the solid wall of...

Concern mounts in India over persecution of religious minorities

Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 19, 2014 at 5:08 am
New Delhi, India, Dec 19, 2014 / 04:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The rise in attacks by Hindu radicals against members of minority religions in India, primarily Christians and Muslims...

Self-censorship over The Interview – a mark of western decadence

Catholic Herald - Dec 19, 2014 at 5:05 am
In a year that has been marked by faux outrage and offence-taking, the North Koreans may have won the crown for the biggest overreaction of 2014. Next week was supposed to see the...

Pope's Morning Homily: Church Is Not Egocentric, Power-Driven

Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 19, 2014 at 5:01 am
Pope Francis is lamenting that characteristics such as power-hungry and egotistic at times are appropriate for describng people of the Church. According to Vatican Radio, during...

Fr Lombardi's 'Ten Commandments' for Catholic communications

EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 19, 2014 at 5:01 am
Rome, Italy, Dec 19, 2014 / 05:01 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- "To communicate is to unify" is the first of the "Ten Words of Communication" that Fr. Federico Lombardi, director of the...

Daily Gospel Reflection for December 19, 2014

CatholicMom.com - Dec 19, 2014 at 5:00 am
  Today’s Gospel: Luke 1: 5 – 25 I remember the frustration I felt as a kid the first time I saw, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Clarence the angel arranges to show George Bailey what...

Pope names second abuse survivor, global experts to protection panel

Franciscan Media - Dec 19, 2014 at 5:00 am
Pope Francis expanded his papal commission on child protection to include a second survivor of abuse and more experts from around the world. The Commission for the Protection of...

Jesus is your �best friend,' Pope tells children

Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 19, 2014 at 4:52 am
Pope Francis met with a delegation of children from Italian Catholic Action on December 18 and told them that Jesus is their "best friend." The Pontiff offered the young people...

Franciscan Minister General to Order: We're broke, due to questionable financial activities of the recent past

Rorate Coeli - Dec 19, 2014 at 4:49 am
From the letter of the Franciscan Minister General, Brother Michael Perry, OFM: In an effort to live as children of the light, the General Definitorium and I wish to bring to...

Chaldean patriarch urges pre-Christmas fast, subdued Christmas celebration

Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 19, 2014 at 4:37 am
Citing the "heavy cross" borne by Iraq's Christian refugees, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church has called upon his flock to fast from December 22 to 24, according to a...

Christians can’t ignore differences on life issues, says Pope

Catholic Herald - Dec 19, 2014 at 4:36 am
Christianity has something to say about human dignity, and “it would be a shame” if differing positions on the sanctity of all human life or on marriage were to increase the...

Cuban, Miami prelates react to policy change toward Cuba

Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 19, 2014 at 4:22 am
The bishops of Cuba have issued a statement welcoming the announcement of the US policy change toward Cuba. "We thank the Lord, now on the eve of Christmas, that new horizons of...

Vatican Christmas tree and Nativity scene

News.va - Dec 19, 2014 at 4:01 am
(Vatican Radio) Pilgrims visiting St Peter’s square during these final weeks of Advent can begin to enjoy a little reminder of Christmas at home, with the lighting up of  the...

SQPN Celebrates CNMC Homecoming

SQPN - Podcast Network - Dec 19, 2014 at 3:44 am
Celebrate SQPN’s 10 Year Jubilee at the annual Catholic New Media Conference Celebration in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday, June 7, 2015 at the Georgia International Conference Center...

Kurds claim major breakthrough against ISIS on Mount Sinjar

Catholic Herald - Dec 19, 2014 at 3:44 am
Kuridsh forces have said that they have made a major breakthrough in their battle to end ISIS’s seige of Mount Sinjar where thousands of Yazidis and other displaced Iraqis have...

Morning Catholic must-reads: 19/12/14

Catholic Herald - Dec 19, 2014 at 3:38 am
The Pope’s visit to Sri Lanka will not be cancelled under any circumstances, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo has insisted. Francis has given Italian children five tips for...

Police and Knights of Columbus join forces to fight the cold

EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 19, 2014 at 3:35 am
New Haven, Conn., Dec 19, 2014 / 04:16 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The Knights of Columbus is joining forces with the New Haven Police Department in the Coats for Kids initiative to make...

Catholic Quote of the Day — O Antiphons: O Radix Jesse

Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 19, 2014 at 3:30 am
O Radix Jesse: “O Root of Jesse, that stands for an ensign of the people, before whom the kings keep silence and unto whom the Gentiles shall make supplication: come, to save us,...
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