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Challenged to live the Gospel
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 21, 2017 at 9:47 am “Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.” The speaker, a Scripture scholar-in-residence at the university, stopped. The class waited. The focus of the series was the Infancy...
Simbang Gabi is Filipino Advent tradition honoring the Blessed Mother
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Dec 21, 2017 at 9:41 am By Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@archstl.org | twitter: @jenniferbrinker
Lily Elznic has fond childhood memories of celebrating Simbang Gabi...
Across the Universe: Of Stars and Baptism
The Catholic Astronomer - Dec 21, 2017 at 9:40 am
This column first ran in The Tablet in December 2013 The first of December had barely arrived when I got our first request of the season for an interview about the Star of...
Be ready to say ‘yes’ when called
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 21, 2017 at 9:40 am The Living Rite column explores what you will see, hear, taste, touch or smell while at church this weekend.
This is one of those Sundays when two important events of the Catholic...
Red Wing deacon helps inmates send Christmas greetings
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 21, 2017 at 9:04 am Cody Rieck, a 21-year-old inmate, has participated in the Christmas photo program before and called it “heartwarming.” He said it makes him happy to be able to do something nice...
Snow Comes In Silence
CatholicMom.com - Dec 21, 2017 at 9:00 am Pixabay (2006), CC0 Public Domain
Snow comes in silence. As I lie in bed I have no idea what is happening in the world outside my window. I wake to the surprise of a changed...
Boiling magma pool threatens several states in New England with fiery eruption HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 21, 2017 at 8:53 am Boiling magma pool threatens several states in New England with fiery eruptionhttp://bit.ly/2kz63wJ
By Abigail James (CALIFORNIA ...
From Paul VI to Confession: 10 books that impressed me in 2017
Catholic Herald - Dec 21, 2017 at 8:34 am It is hard as a book blogger to choose between all the books one has read throughout the year in order to select ones that particularly stand out, for the purpose of a Christmas...
Daily Reading for Monday, December 25th, 2017 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 21, 2017 at 8:20 am Reading 1, Isaiah 52:7-10
7 How beautiful on the mountains, are the feet of the messenger announcing peace, of the messenger of goodnews, who ...
Daily Reading for Sunday, December 24th, 2017 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 21, 2017 at 8:02 am Reading 1, Second Samuel 7:1-5, 8-11, 16
1 Once the king had settled into his palace and Yahweh had granted him rest from all the enemies surrounding ...
Simple science can help you keep your New Year’s resolutions
Aleteia - Dec 21, 2017 at 8:00 am This principle also applies to personal finances and helps you build a virtuous cycle.It’s no surprise more than half of all New Year resolutions end in failure. The reason this...
The absolute, very last word on Trump and Jerusalem -- for the moment, at least
GetReligion - Dec 21, 2017 at 8:00 am The copy keeps coming, the pundits keep pontificating and the repercussions -- both serious and superficial, real and imaginary -- continue to pile up since President Donald Trump...
Daily Reading for Saturday, December 23rd, 2017 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 21, 2017 at 7:52 am Reading 1, Malachi 3:1-4, 23-24
1 'Look, I shall send my messenger to clear a way before me. And suddenly the Lord whom you seek will come to his ...
Christmas Plants and How to Grow Five Most Popular
CatholicMom.com - Dec 21, 2017 at 7:30 am Pixabay (2015), CC0 Public Domain
There are several plants traditionally given (or bought for myself!) during the Christmas season. Knowing how to care for these living gifts can...
St Ann Choir Christmas Season Schedule, Palo Alto, California
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 21, 2017 at 7:21 am The St Ann Choir is one of the few choirs that sings the traditional sacred music of the Church at Latin Masses in the Ordinary Form on Sundays, and polyphonic Masses by renowned...
Still haven’t found what you’re meant to do? Take solace with this saint
Aleteia - Dec 21, 2017 at 7:00 am Blessed Maria Therese von Wüllenweber knows what it's like to be looking for your passion, and unable to find it.There’s little that’s more discouraging in life than a feeling of...
St Peter Canisius
Communio - Dec 21, 2017 at 6:26 am “At length, it was as if you [Lord] opened to me the heart in your most sacred body: I seemed to see it directly before my eyes. You told me to drink from this fountain, inviting...
Trump Commutes Sentence of Sholom Rubashkin
The Religion Clause - Dec 21, 2017 at 6:20 am The White House announced yesterday that President Trump has commuted the prison sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, saying that it was "an action encouraged by bipartisan leaders from...
Cardinal Law, whose legacy was marred by sex abuse scandal, dies
Franciscan Media - Dec 21, 2017 at 6:20 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Cardinal Bernard F. Law, who had been one of the United States’ most powerful and respected bishops until his legacy was blemished by the devastating sexual...
England's Court of Appeal Rejects Religious Objections To Transgender Parent's Contact With Children
The Religion Clause - Dec 21, 2017 at 6:15 am Britain's Court of Appeal yesterday reversed the decision of a Family Court judge who had ordered that the Orthodox Jewish father of five children who left the family to live as a...
