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Tools for Your 2018 “Pray More” Resolution
Lisa Hendey.com - Dec 29, 2017 at 12:06 pm
If you're like me, it's likely you will spend at least an hour or two over the next few days looking back in recollection over 2017 and planning ahead for the New Year. We "...
A closer look at “The Visitation” by Piero di Cosimo
Aleteia - Dec 29, 2017 at 12:00 pm One of the most intriguing artists of Italian Renaissance, Piero di Cosimo (1462 – 1522) was known for the "strangeness of his brain."One of the most intriguing artists of Italian...
Plenary Indulgence Available New Year's Day
Big C Catholics - Dec 29, 2017 at 11:42 am A plenary indulgence may be gained by reciting or singing the hymn Veni Creator Spiritus on the first day of the year. This hymn calls on the Holy Spirit's guidance, protection...
Pregnant 14-Year-Old Rejects Abortion, Now Faces Intense Bullying From Her Classmates
LifeNews.com - Dec 29, 2017 at 11:23 am Kaiya Acton knew that people would look down on her when they found out that she was pregnant at just 14 years old.
But the Liverpool, England teen refused to even consider...
Woman Missing Since 2013 Allegedly Killed By Her Boyfriend After Telling Him She Was Pregnant
LifeNews.com - Dec 29, 2017 at 11:13 am A Colorado man is facing murder charges this month after his girlfriend told him that she was pregnant and then went missing in 2013.
People reports Donthe Lucas, 25, of Pueblo,...
Friday Five: Trump's Christmas, Hatmaker's critics, Dallas monks, remote Catholic places and more
GetReligion - Dec 29, 2017 at 11:05 am
It's Friday again.
At least I think it's Friday. I've been on vacation all week celebrating Christmas, and I've mostly lost track of what day it is.
"Nobody knows what day of the...
USCCB: Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 29, 2017 at 11:03 am I was alerted to something interesting on the website of the USCCB. The bishops posted a letter signed by religious leaders of various groups. HERE My emphases.
Created Male...
How a post-holiday Netflix binge can help you process emotional trauma
Aleteia - Dec 29, 2017 at 11:00 am Using TV binge-watching to practice "reappraisal" can be good for you. I don’t know about you, but I love a good post-Christmas Netflix binge. Some years my choices have been more...
The Incarnation is a Celestial Blessing for Mankind
Big C Catholics - Dec 29, 2017 at 10:47 am Father Pius ParschGod became Man. Utterly incomprehensible is this truth to our puny human minds! That the eternal God whom heaven and earth cannot contain, who bears the world in...
Pennsylvania Abortions Drop 3% as Almost 1,000 Babies Saved From Abortion
LifeNews.com - Dec 29, 2017 at 10:31 am There is excellent news out of the state of Pennsylvania today. Abortions and the Keystone State have dropped by around 3% as almost 1,000 babies have been saved from abortion....
Pope Francis Prays for End to Abortion: “We Pray For Children Not Allowed to be Born”
LifeNews.com - Dec 29, 2017 at 10:05 am Pope Francis is closing out 2017 with a prayer to end abortion. In a tweet posted on Twitter he called the world to pray for children who are not allowed to be born.
Today we pray...
"...And Know the Place for the First Time"
Saint Louis Catholic - Dec 29, 2017 at 10:00 am The great Cardinal Burke places the Baby Jesus in the creche, Florence, 2017Only the occasion of Christmas, and the quality of the material, causes me to stoop to posting what...
Latin news show saved after global outcry
Catholic Herald - Dec 29, 2017 at 9:52 am For nearly three decades, Finland’s YLE radio has broadcast a weekly news programme in Latin to a small group of committed listeners around the globe. With the audience numbering...
Catholic swimmer Katie Ledecky named AP Female Athlete of the Year
Franciscan Media - Dec 29, 2017 at 9:38 am WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Associated Press named Katie Ledecky the Female Athlete of the Year Dec. 26, after balloting by U.S. editors and news directors.
Ledecky, a graduate of...
Coptic church and Christian-owned shop attacked in Egypt
Aleteia - Dec 29, 2017 at 9:21 am Security beefed up as Copts prepare to celebrate old-calendar ChristmasEgypt’s Coptic Christians are still being targeted by terrorists, and today they got a stark reminder of...
Glory to the Newborn King
CatholicMom.com - Dec 29, 2017 at 9:00 am Gerard van Honthorst [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Our newly beatified Bl. Solanus Casey was known to have a great love for The Mystical City of God, a history of the...
Charles Dickens’ punch recipe for the holidays
Aleteia - Dec 29, 2017 at 9:00 am This is not the “spirit” of Christmas past.Considered by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, the works of Charles Dickens have never gone out of print. Praised by...
Beyond the snow wall with broken shoes. A night with the migrants on the French border
Vatican Insider - Dec 29, 2017 at 8:52 am The rule is to get up well before dawn to take advantage of the darkness and walk unnoticed the first 5 kilometers between the elegant chalets of Bardonecchia and Les Arnaud and...
Comet Lessons – C 17 P / Holmes
The Catholic Astronomer - Dec 29, 2017 at 8:24 am
My interest in comets started back in 1986 when Comet 1P/ Halley was visible from my back garden in a small unstable telescope. I showed it to several people and ten years later...
The Christmas message: not commercial enough for Washington
Catholic Herald - Dec 29, 2017 at 8:20 am For years, the “War on Christmas” has struck even conservative Christians as a tad over-wrought. Though half of Americans still consider Christmas a religious holiday, only 32...
