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Daily Reflection — Light of Christ
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 17, 2014 at 5:30 am “Hark! a herald voice is calling through the shadows of the night. Cast away the dreams of darkness, Christ descends with heavenly light.” (from a hymn for Lauds on December 17)....
Pope prays for conversion of terrorists who do not even spare children
News.va - Dec 17, 2014 at 5:10 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has asked for prayers for the victims of the “inhuman terror attacks perpetrated in the past days in Sydney, Australia and in Peshawar, Pakistan”....
Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Decent Films Guide - Dec 17, 2014 at 5:10 am What I can say is that The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (a title strangely stuffed with too many the’s, at a time when movie titles often dispense with articles) includes...
Daily Gospel Reflection for December 17, 2014
CatholicMom.com - Dec 17, 2014 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: Matthew 1: 1- 17
In forty-two generations, only four women were given a place of recognition in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Of the four, three are associated...
U.S. women religious find Vatican report reaffirming
Franciscan Media - Dec 17, 2014 at 5:00 am U.S. women religious welcomed the conciliatory tone of a Vatican report on religious life and appreciated acknowledgement of the important ministry that they practice day in and...
St Peter’s Square could be Olympics venue
Catholic Herald - Dec 17, 2014 at 4:55 am St Peter’s Square may host the Olympics, if Italy is awarded the 2024 Olympic Games.
Cardinal José Saraiva Martins said that Pope Francis would likely agree to host a sport inside...
The West must find the courage to curb Putin’s aggression
Catholic Herald - Dec 17, 2014 at 4:46 am The economic turmoil in Russia seems to be getting worse by the hour, so by the time you read this the situation might well have changed beyond recognition. This economic...
Prayer for the Pope on His 78th Birthday
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 17, 2014 at 4:43 am As Pope Francis celebrates his 78th birthday today, here is a prayer for the Pope: V. Let us pray for Francis, the Pope. R. May the Lord preserve him, give him a long life, make...
Spanish diocese criticized for not publicizing cathedral's Islamic past
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 17, 2014 at 4:42 am Stating that tourism is being harmed, the government of the southern Spanish region of Andalusia has criticized the Diocese of Córdoba for not doing more to highlight the Islamic...
Irish priest in Sydney says Australians turned to prayer during siege
Catholic Herald - Dec 17, 2014 at 4:30 am An Irish priest based in Sydney said he was struck by how people turned to prayer when a gunman took hostages at a cafe.
Father Brendan Purcell is based at St Mary’s Cathedral,...
Major Media Ignore Arrest of Gay Activist and Democrat Donor
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 17, 2014 at 4:30 am
For decades, Terry Bean has made media and political waves as a co-founder of the gay “rights” group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and a major fundraiser and bundler for President...
Russian patriarch: Islamic State �demonizes' Islam
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 17, 2014 at 4:25 am During a recent meeting in Moscow with Turkey's leading Muslim cleric, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church made comments about the Islamic State and the persecution of ...
Cardinal Schönborn laments Russian aggression in Ukraine
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 17, 2014 at 4:13 am Returning from a visit to Ukraine, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna decried the Soviet-induced Ukrainian famine of the 1930s and lamented current Russian actions.
"Stalin...
Pope Francis strengthens commission for the protection of minors
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 17, 2014 at 4:04 am Vatican City, Dec 17, 2014 / 04:04 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis appointed eight new members of the Pontifical Commission
for the Protection of Minors on Wednesday, completing...
Clergy and Seminarians to gather in Rome for International Colloquium
News.va - Dec 17, 2014 at 4:01 am (Vatican Radio) Over one hundred bishops, priests, deacons and seminarians will meet in Rome in January 2015 for the Second International Conference of the English-speaking...
�Christmas in an Iraqi refugee camp'
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 17, 2014 at 3:55 am The Daily Mail has published a photographic overview of life in an Iraqi refugee camp.
The camp's Christian inhabitants fled the advance of the Islamic State, and the overview...
Debt, illness, discrimination – Syrian refugees struggle in Lebanon
EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 17, 2014 at 3:55 am Beirut, Lebanon, Dec 17, 2014 / 04:09 am (EWTN News/CNA).- After losing their homes and their livelihoods, Syrian refugees in
Lebanon are now finding their plight worsened by the...
Pakistan: 59 in custody for horrific murder of Christian couple
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 17, 2014 at 3:45 am Six weeks after a Pakistani Christian husband and wife were detained by a mob for two days, had their legs broken, and were burned to death in a brick kiln, 59 people are in...
USCCB: bishop laments opening of immigrant detention center
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 17, 2014 at 3:44 am The chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Migration decried the opening of a family detention center-- the largest of its kind-- for those who...
Catholic Quote of the Day — O Antiphons: O Sapientia
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 17, 2014 at 3:30 am O Sapientia: “O Wisdom, who came forth from the mouth of the Most High, reaching from end to end and ordering all things mightily: come, and teach us the way of prudence!” (...
