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Over 3.4 million TV viewers saw Vatican Christmas concert (Zenit)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2017 at 4:12 amFor 1st time in 50 years, Myanmar's Christians celebrate Christmas publicly (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2017 at 4:12 am The nation of 55 million, which Pope Francis visited last month, is 88% Buddhist, 6% Christian, and 4% Muslim.
US Catholics engage nation's 'transgender moment' (National Catholic Register)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2017 at 4:12 amThe highest-paid Catholic college presidents (America)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2017 at 4:12 am Four Catholic college presidents received compensation of over $1 million.
UN General Assembly rejects 'humanitarian abortion' (C-FAM)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2017 at 4:12 amChurch in Philippines launches fund drive for typhoon victims (Vatican News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2017 at 4:12 am Typhoon Tembin (Vinta) peaked on Christmas Eve and has killed over 260 people.
Pope tells theologians: be faithful to Vatican II (Vatican News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2017 at 3:12 am Speaking on December 29 to members of the Italian Theological Association, Pope Francis called for “creative fidelity” to the teachings of the Church. He applauded the group’s...
Judge rejects bankruptcy plans for Minnesota archdiocese (Pioneer Press)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2017 at 3:12 am A federal judge in Minnesota has rejected plans to settle the bankruptcy case of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis. Judge Robert Kressel said that both the archdiocese and...
Evangelical Christians 'uncritical' in support for Trump, UK Anglican bishop says (The Guardian)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2017 at 3:12 am The prelate, Rt. Rev. Paul Bayes of Liverpool, said in 2016 that Anglicans should be more accepting of homosexual relationships.
+Father Maurice Borrmans, 92 (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2017 at 3:12 am Father Maurice Borrmans, a French missionary who became a leading figure in Catholic-Muslim dialogue, died on December 26 at the age of 92.
Only where God is can there be a new beginning.
Aleteia - Dec 29, 2017 at 3:00 am Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Italian prime minister mourns failure to pass new citizenship law backed by bishops (Reuters)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2017 at 2:12 am “The question of whether some 800,000 minors who were born in Italy to foreign parents, or who arrived at a young age, could be declared citizens under certain conditions, became...
US promises to help Nigeria exterminate Boko Haram (This Day (Lagos))
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2017 at 2:12 am The Nigerian economy is accompanying text”> slowly recovering as the strength of the militant jihadist group wanes.
Putin says Saint Petersburg market explosion was 'terror attack' (Fox News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2017 at 2:12 am Earlier this month, the CIA helped thwart an ISIS attack on Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg.
Ugandan army kills 100 ADF rebels in DR Congo (Africanews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2017 at 2:12 am For over two decades, the ADF (Allied Democratic Forces) has conducted a brutal insurgency in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was founded by a Catholic who became a...
Pope Francis is Only Partly Right on the Lord’s Prayer
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 29, 2017 at 2:10 am
Pope Francis was right that the traditional English translation of the Lord’s Prayer is deficient, but his suggested change, and even his identification of which part needs to be...
What the Failure of Russian Liberalism Means for Us
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 29, 2017 at 2:00 am
A century on, the Russian Revolution still looms like a shadow from the past. Rather surprisingly, in a way, since the Cold War has been over for nearly three decades. Yet there...
Point/Counterpoint
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 29, 2017 at 1:21 am Christianist liars cut the Flight to Egypt out of their Bibles because peasants fleeing death squads give them a squirmy feeling of discomfort in their seared consciences. Mary...
St. Peter Chrysologus on the Miracle of the Incarnation
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 29, 2017 at 1:18 amGlobalization has failed poor nations and factory workers, says Vatican newspaper editor (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2017 at 1:12 am Globalization’s promise of increased living standards in poorer nations has proved to be a “delusion,” L’Osservatore Romano’s deputy editor said in an op-ed.
