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Resignations and appointments (12/27) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 28, 2017 at 2:12 am Pope Francis accepted the resignation of a Tanzanian archbishop for reasons of age and named his replacement.
Church in Italy aids Iranian earthquake victims (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 28, 2017 at 2:12 am With the permission of the Iranian government, a team from Caritas Italiana—the relief and development agency of the Church in Italy—has visited the site of the deadliest...
Child who survived terrorist attack meets with Pope (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 28, 2017 at 2:12 am An 11-year-old girl who was injured in the jihadist terrorist attack in Barcelona in August met with Pope Francis at his December 27 general audience.
Theologian reflects on new Vatican instruction on relics (Vatican News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 28, 2017 at 2:12 am Vatican News, a new website under the purview of the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications, interviewed a professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Click here for...
Leading Italian bishop highlights plight of unemployed, poor (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 28, 2017 at 2:12 am In his Christmas homily, the president of the Italian Episcopal Conference said that as there was no room in the inn for the Holy Family, there is no room in the inn of the...
Counting Christmas: Celebrating the Twelfth Night
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 28, 2017 at 2:10 am
Eight octave days, culminating in a New Year.
Twelve days before Epiphany.
Forty days until the Presentation.
This is how we count the days of Christmas. The octave and forty...
The Finest Depiction of Holy Innocents Ever Painted
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 28, 2017 at 2:03 am It haunts me.
Will Artificial Intelligence Lead to a Dystopian Future?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 28, 2017 at 2:00 am
In 2017 the following quotation was reported:
What is going to be created will effectively be a god. It’s not a god in the sense that it makes lightning or causes hurricanes. But...
The Pope encourages young Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants at Taizé meeting
Vatican Insider - Dec 28, 2017 at 1:41 am Pope Francis sent his message of encouragement to the young Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants who gathered in Basel, "at the crossroads of Switzerland, France and Germany", for...
Oil price at 2-1/2 year high following Libyan pipeline explosion (MarketWatch)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 28, 2017 at 1:12 am Terrorists are suspected in the explosion, according to a Reuters report.
Russia, US discuss need for urgent North Korea negotiations (AFP)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 28, 2017 at 1:12 am L’Osservatore Romano (12/27-12/28 Italian ed.) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
Spain's king, in Christmas message to nation, urges Catalan lawmakers to avoid confrontation with Madrid (Voice of America)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 28, 2017 at 1:12 amItaly to send troops to Niger to fight Islamist militants, human trafficking (Reuters)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 28, 2017 at 1:12 am France is also sending troops to Africa’s Sahel region to combat Islamist militants.
255 migrants rescued in Mediterranean (MENAFN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 28, 2017 at 1:12 am The number of migrants arriving in Italy by sea has fallen from 180,000 in 2016 to 119,000 this year, according to this report.
President Trump cuts funding to UN after Israel vote (Newsweek)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 28, 2017 at 1:12 am L’Osservatore Romano (12/27-12/28 Italian ed.) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
2 relics of St. Thomas Becket discovered in Italian church (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 28, 2017 at 1:12 am Residents of a small Italian city rejoiced in the unexpected discovery of two relics of St. Thomas Becket.
Prayer request and praise report
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 28, 2017 at 1:12 am A reader writes: I’ve being feeling defeated by my faults lately – so I guess I’m asking for prayers that I may grow in hope. Peace and blessings (and Merry Christmas). Father,...
What I Did This Christmas
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 28, 2017 at 1:08 am So I started Christmas by allowing my computer to suffer a massive heart attack and die, taking with it the logon information for this blog. This was, of course, the Greatest Gift...
The Flesh Lusteth against the Flesh
Dominicana - Dec 28, 2017 at 1:00 am Sometimes the Christian life feels like an interminable war against the cravings of the flesh. There’s a sense in which we pit our desire for heaven against the demands of our...
