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Christmas in St. Peter's Basilica: full text of Pope Francis's homily (Vatican News)

Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 24, 2017 at 8:12 pm

Click here for a video of the Mass and here for the booklet for the celebration.

Sculpting Galaxies

The Catholic Astronomer - Dec 24, 2017 at 7:24 pm

Astronomers have an interest in objects called dwarf galaxies, so-called for their small numbers of visible stars, to have high amounts of dark matter compared to other types of...

The Pope's Christmas greetings in 7 languages (Vatican Press Office)

Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 24, 2017 at 7:12 pm

Pope Francis offered his greetings to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Christmas Day.

Pope Francis: Christmas Message Urbi et Orbi (To the City and the World) (Vatican News)

Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 24, 2017 at 7:12 pm

Each Christmas and Easter, the Roman Pontiff delivers a message before imparting a blessing on the city and the world. Click here for a video of the Pope’s 2017 Christmas message...

Theresa May: Britain should ‘take pride’ in its Christian heritage

Catholic Herald - Dec 24, 2017 at 6:52 pm

“Let us take pride in our Christian heritage,” prime minister Theresa May has said in her Christmas message. In an address that stressed the role of the emergency services and...

Reflection on the Nativity of the Lord (Christmas)

Big C Catholics - Dec 24, 2017 at 6:48 pm

By Msgr. Bernard BourgeoisMass at MidnightIsaiah 9:1-6; Psalm 96; Titus 2:11-14; Luke 2:1-14“While [Mary and Joseph] were there, the time came for her to have her child,and she...

The Holy Father's Prayer Intentions for January 2018

Big C Catholics - Dec 24, 2017 at 6:46 pm

Please remember the Holy Father Pope Francis' intentions in prayer throughout the month of January:Evangelization: Religious Minorities in AsiaThat Christians, and other religious...

God’s mercy reaches us

Communio - Dec 24, 2017 at 6:20 pm

Let Your goodness Lord appear to us, that we, made in your image, conform ourselves to it. In our own strength we cannot imitate Your majesty, power, and wonder nor is it fitting...

Read in full: Pope Francis’s homily at Midnight Mass

Catholic Herald - Dec 24, 2017 at 6:02 pm

Mary “gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn” (Lk 2:7). In these plain and...

Pope Francis: journey of Mary and Joseph is like today’s migrations

Catholic Herald - Dec 24, 2017 at 5:14 pm

Pope Francis in Christmas Eve remarks Sunday likened the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem to the migrations of millions of people today who are forced to leave homelands...

The “Kalenda”, the solemn Christmas Proclamation – AUDIO

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 24, 2017 at 4:25 pm

One of the many gifts we receive for Christmas is the singing of the Martyrology which has the special Proclamation of the Birth of Christ, the “Kalenda“. I am getting ready to...

Sunday Soundbite for December 25, 2017

Franciscan Media - Dec 24, 2017 at 4:00 pm

Nativity of the Lord – Christmas Cycle B December 25, 2017 https://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ssad0205.mp3 I want to tell you a true story that happened...

Pope Francis: Christmas invites us to be messengers of hope, tenderness

Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 24, 2017 at 3:43 pm

Vatican City, Dec 24, 2017 / 02:43 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis said the birth of Jesus is an invitation for all Christians to imitate him in reaching out to embrace the...

A Very Blessed Christmas!

Rorate Coeli - Dec 24, 2017 at 3:27 pm

*** At ubi venit plenitudo temporis, misit Deus Filium suum factum ex muliere, factum sub lege, ut eos, qui sub lege erant, redimeret, ut adoptionem filiorum reciperemus...

The Pope, “Welcome those who have no place and turn fear into charity”

Vatican Insider - Dec 24, 2017 at 3:25 pm

“Amid the gloom of a city that had no room or place for the stranger from afar", on the footsteps of a couple of refugees" forced to leave their land "Surviving the Herods of...

"God Has Embraced Pagans, Sinners and Foreigners, and Demands That We Do the Same" – In the "Revolutionary Tenderness" of Christmas, "A New Imagination of Love"

Whispers in the Loggia - Dec 24, 2017 at 3:16 pm

HOMILY OF POPE FRANCISTHE NATIVITY OF THE LORD – MASS IN THE HOLY NIGHTST PETER'S BASILICA24 DECEMBER 2017Mary “gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth,...

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