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The Courtship Continues: Readings for the Third Sunday of Advent
The Sacred Page - Dec 10, 2011 at 12:47 pm It may seem counterintuitive, but Advent has a courtship aspect to it.
Waiting for Christmas is like waiting for one’s wedding. A wedding unites two persons “as one flesh.” At...
Devastated by fire, Arizona shrine is being restored
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 10, 2011 at 12:03 pm Tucson, Ariz., Dec 10, 2011 / 01:03 pm (CNA).- It was a Tuesday – June 14 – when a raging wildfire ate its way over a ridge in the Huachuca Mountains and took aim at Our Lady of...
The Orphan’s Prayer
CatholicMom.com - Dec 10, 2011 at 12:00 pm The First Date
The seeds of love were planted at first site before their first date. There wasn’t a doubt in Mark’s mind or heart that he would spend the rest of his life with...
Archbishop urges lapsed Catholics to just leave the Church
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 10, 2011 at 11:29 am While dioceses in the United States are climbing aboard the “Catholics Come Home” bandwagon, at least one bishop in Ireland is saying “Go ahead. Leave. And don’t let the door...
Misleading Calls Claim Newt Gingrich Not Pro-Life on Abortion
LifeNews.com - Dec 10, 2011 at 11:22 am A little-known Iowa “pro-life” organization is running misleading robocalls in Iowa telling republican voters that former Speaker Newt Gingrich, the leading GOP presidential...
Newt Gingrich, John Paul II and the Palestinians
Commonweal - Dec 10, 2011 at 11:11 am
Publicity photo for Gingrich Productions documentary.
Newt Gingrich co-produced and starred, with his wife, in the documentary Nine Days that Changed the World in praise of Pope...
First Sacrament Emboldens
CatholicMom.com - Dec 10, 2011 at 11:00 am My little girl, nicknamed Serious just had her First Reconciliation Tuesday night, and while we’ve been through this before with two older children, something new hit me this time...
AIYEEEE! Pyjamahadeen! AIYEEEE!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 10, 2011 at 10:52 am I saw this on the blog of my friend, His Hermeneuticalness himself, Fr. Tim Finigan (whom I hope to be seeing again after Christmas! … London blognic anyone?). Check it out!
The...
Archbishop Chaput describes 'very serious' issues in Philadelphia
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 10, 2011 at 10:50 am Philadelphia, Pa., Dec 10, 2011 / 11:34 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia faces "very serious" financial and organizational issues which mean some of its...
Archbishop Chaput describes ‘very serious’ issues in Philadelphia
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 10, 2011 at 10:30 am Philadelphia, Pa., Dec 10, 2011 / 11:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Archdiocese of Philadelphia faces “very serious” financial and organizational issues which mean some of its...
Newt in a NUTshell
Creative Minority Report - Dec 10, 2011 at 10:26 am I will admit that I have had my frustrations with Peggy Noonan, particularly in 2008. That said, she has an uncanny ability sometimes to get to the root of something. Her column...
Matters papyrological
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 10, 2011 at 10:22 am I am visiting my mother, at the moment. She is the only person I know with her very own papyrus stand! As you may know, papyrus gives us the English word “paper”.
No, she isn’t...
The Industrious Lazy
Creative Minority Report - Dec 10, 2011 at 10:02 am I love stories like this. People who will go to extraordinary lengths to get out of doing work. But this one takes the cake.A man faked his mother's death by publishing a fake...
Surviving Christmas
CatholicMom.com - Dec 10, 2011 at 9:46 am As a “good” Catholic mom, I should be writing a post about the true meaning of Christmas. I should be writing about how I am teaching my children about giving rather than taking...
A priest starts hearing confessions before Masses: “And, boy, have the people come!”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 10, 2011 at 9:42 am This, folks, the the real promotion of the new evangelization.
From a priest:
On your blog you regularly post encouragements to parishioners and priests alike to have (or...
"On your own economics"
The Forum - Dec 10, 2011 at 9:40 am Mark Steyn has done it again. Hands down, he is one of the right's best political and cultural writers out there. Here's a snippet from his latest, a devastating critique of Obama...
QUAERITUR: Parish priest will not implement the new translation, schedules General Absolution
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 10, 2011 at 9:33 am From a reader:
I’m living in Ireland and my parish priest … has, under the influence of the new Association of Irish Catholic Priests, decided to make a stand against the new...
