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My first African Christmas
Catholic Herald - Dec 21, 2017 at 6:15 am At the age of 17, the future Princess Michael of Kent visited her father’s farm in Mozambique. There she found herself caring for a baby cheetah whose mother had been shot because...
There’s no better time than Christmas to learn New Testament Greek
Catholic Herald - Dec 21, 2017 at 6:15 am Have yourself a merry little Christmas. And an ancient, classical one, too, while you’re at it. That’s the wise message sent out by the Pope this winter. First, he recommended...
‘The road of belief has many surprises’
Catholic Herald - Dec 21, 2017 at 6:15 am It is a crisp winter’s day in New York City, and Andrea Bocelli, tall and elegant at 59, is talking about his faith. “In religion,” he says slowly, “is the meaning of life.” He is...
Mince pies amid persecution
Catholic Herald - Dec 21, 2017 at 6:15 am Thomas Hodgson had trouble sleeping on Christmas Eve in 1599. He was a man of Catholic sympathies, well-connected in recusant circles and teaching children in the household of...
FDA approves gene therapy for inherited forms of vision loss (UPI)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 21, 2017 at 6:12 am In its 2008 instruction Dignitas Personae, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith discussed gene therapy (nos. 25-27). Procedures “used on somatic cells for strictly...
Department of Justice drops appeal to prevent immigrant teen's abortion (The Hill)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 21, 2017 at 6:12 amFired Atlanta Fire Chief Wins Challenge To Outside Employment Rules
The Religion Clause - Dec 21, 2017 at 6:10 am In Cochran v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, (ND GA, Dec. 20, 2017), a Georgia federal district court gave a partial victory to a former Atlanta fire chief who was dismissed from his...
DC Circuit Refuses Injunction Pending Appeal In DC Religious Bus Ad Case
The Religion Clause - Dec 21, 2017 at 6:05 am In Archdiocese of Washington v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, (DC Cir., Dec. 20, 2017), the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit refused to issue an injunction...
The Mystery of Nazareth: Charles De Foucauld
CatholicMom.com - Dec 21, 2017 at 6:00 am By Albert Backer (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Sr. Margaret continues her series on desert spirituality, sharing snippets of her book awaiting publication.
“Tho...
Oklahoma Supreme Court Reverses Itself In Suit By Muslim Convert To Christianity
The Religion Clause - Dec 21, 2017 at 6:00 am In Doe v. First Presbyterian Church U.S.A. of Tulsa, (OK Sup. Ct., Dec. 19, 2017), the Oklahoma Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, withdrew its Feb. 2017 decision (see prior...
ADVENTCAzT 2017 19: Millions of favors are hanging from heaven on silken cords
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 21, 2017 at 5:25 am
Here is ADVENTCAzT 19, for Thursday in the 3rd Week of Advent.
Help the Benedictine sisters whose music is often featured in these podcasts. They need your help before the end of...
Turkmenistan's tiny Catholic community prepares for Christmas (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 21, 2017 at 5:12 am The Asian nation of 5.3 million, once part of the Soviet Union, is 89% Muslim and 9% Eastern Orthodox. The nation’s Catholics are mainly descendants of Poles and Germans deported...
Pakistan: Methodist leader responds to attack on church (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 21, 2017 at 5:12 am Eleven people were killed in a suicide-bombing attack on a church in Quetta. “Terrorists are targeting everyone, they are attacking mosques, schools, universities, hospitals,...
India: Hindu extremists warn Christian schools not to celebrate Christmas (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 21, 2017 at 5:12 am The threat was issued in Uttar Pradesh, a northern Indian state.
Pope Francis rebukes ex-Vatican officials who claim to be ‘martyrs’
Catholic Herald - Dec 21, 2017 at 4:46 am Pope Francis has criticised Vatican officials for “ambition”, “vainglory” and “self-referentiality” in his annual keynote speech. The yearly address to the Roman Curia, given in...
Pope upbraids Vatican bureaucracy: Serve the world, not “degraded logic of small cliques”
Vatican Insider - Dec 21, 2017 at 4:32 am Pope Francis again upbraided the high-level Catholic prelates that run the Vatican bureaucracy in an annual pre-Christmas speech Dec. 21, telling them to get beyond what he termed...
Indonesian authorities on maximum terror alert over Christmas (AsiaNews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 21, 2017 at 4:12 am Over 20,000 agents will be deployed in the nation’s capital.
English bishops: 'we stand at odds with President Trump's recognition' of Jerusalem (Catholic Church in England & Wales)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 21, 2017 at 4:12 am Speaking on behalf of English and Welsh bishops, Cardinal Vincent Nichols added that “the Bill of Church Lands that has been proposed in the Knesset [Israeli parliament] would...
Christians ready for Christmas after the caliphate's collapse (National Catholic Register)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 21, 2017 at 4:12 amChristian satellite TV station brings hope, healing, and education to Middle East (Vatican News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 21, 2017 at 4:12 am The station, SAT-7, was founded in 1995 and broadcasts to 25 nations.
