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Marko’s Story: The darkness will be overcome
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2017 at 9:41 am We’ve raised $126,034 towards our goal of $300,000 by December 22nd to keep our pro-life and pro-family news reporting mission running at its current high level in the U.S.,...
Judge May Force Trump Admin to Facilitate Abortions for Two More Illegal Immigrants
LifeNews.com - Dec 18, 2017 at 9:31 am The ACLU is trying to force the federal government to help facilitate two more abortions for unaccompanied illegal immigrant teens.
On Friday, the pro-abortion legal group filed a...
Nativity scenes and tinkeritis
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 18, 2017 at 9:26 am There’s tinkeritis with liturgy and tinkeritis with creches. They seem to be symptoms of the same mental, spiritual malady. Is it hubris?
What is it with the desire to tinker...
Ursids Meteor Shower 2017: Dec. 21-22
The Catholic Astronomer - Dec 18, 2017 at 9:21 am
The Ursids meteor shower peaks just before Christmas and has rates much lower than the recent Geminds, making it an often neglected meteor shower. Meteors will tend to appear...
Philippines Church calls on Duterte regime to stop violence against religious leaders
Aleteia - Dec 18, 2017 at 9:19 am Three church leaders, including a retired Catholic priest, have been murdered in the last month.A week after a retired 72-year-old priest was murdered in the Philippines, the...
Sometimes Sacramental Confession can be more useful than counselling
Catholic Herald - Dec 18, 2017 at 9:12 am It might seem odd to blog about Confession in the week leading up to Christmas, which is a time of obvious rejoicing. But in a way, the Sacrament of Reconciliation comes before...
“This is why His Majesty King Abdullah II is heading to the Vatican”
Vatican Insider - Dec 18, 2017 at 9:12 am Fr. Rif’at Bader, director of the Catholic Center for Studies and Media (CCSM) in Jordan, has made the following press statement titled, “This is Why His Majesty King Abdullah II...
How Speech Therapy Made Me Holy(er)
CatholicMom.com - Dec 18, 2017 at 9:00 am Copyright 2017 Laura Nelson. All rights reserved.
There are many paths to holiness I realize, but going to speech therapy wasn’t one I had ever thought of before. But recently,...
As pope turns 81, kids entertain with song, dance and 13-foot pizza
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 18, 2017 at 8:48 am VATICAN CITY — Celebrating his 81st birthday, Pope Francis blew out the candles on a 13-foot long pizza after being serenaded with song and dance by children and employees from a...
The stare that shows the reality of the Incarnation
Catholic Herald - Dec 18, 2017 at 8:42 am The finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple is something of an odd subject for an artist, but I was struck by Bernardino Luini’s treatment of the subject which is to be found in...
Proceedings of Dialogos Conference on Dignitatis Humanae published
Rorate Coeli - Dec 18, 2017 at 8:31 am In 2015 the Dialogos Institute held an important conference in Norcia, Italy on the interpretation of the controversial Declaration of the Second Vatican Council on Religious...
Guest Op-Ed: On the nature of schism
Rorate Coeli - Dec 18, 2017 at 8:30 am NOTE: As easy as it is to do, please do not read into this piece, and assign a verdict to any one group, especially a group that is traditional. Rather, look at it through the...
What kind of pizza does Pope Francis like for his birthday? HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 18, 2017 at 8:26 am What kind of pizza does Pope Francis like for his birthday?http://bit.ly/2BFVqSp
By Marshall Connolly (CALIFORNIA NETWORK)
12/18/2017
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The mommy blog joke we need to stop laughing at
Aleteia - Dec 18, 2017 at 8:00 am All moms need coping mechanisms, but the more dangerous ones are not funny.One of my favorite parts about being a mommy blogger was the endless opportunity to make mommy wine...
When Pope Francis trashes Satan, journalists need to do more legwork on why
GetReligion - Dec 18, 2017 at 8:00 am
Not long ago, the London Telegraph ran a brief piece about Pope Francis cautioning people not to talk to the devil.
The mere existence of a papal discussion on the matter...
Daily Reading for Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 18, 2017 at 7:48 am Reading 1, Isaiah 7:10-14
10 Yahweh spoke to Ahaz again and said:
11 Ask Yahweh your God for a sign, either in the depths of Sheol or in the heights ...
Blaise Pascal, a faithful skeptic
Aleteia - Dec 18, 2017 at 7:21 am Pascal's wager, simply (and reasonably) explained.Nicolás Gómez Dávila once wrote: “Scholasticism sinned when it tried to turn the Christian believer into a know-it-all. The true...
Toy chain refuses to open on Christmas Eve, as it’s a Sunday
Catholic Herald - Dec 18, 2017 at 7:19 am One of Britain’s largest toy store chains will keep all its 149 branches closed this Christmas Eve, as the day falls on a Sunday. The Entertainer will likely lose around £2...
A feast that ponders what Mary felt in the final days before Christ’s birth
Aleteia - Dec 18, 2017 at 7:00 am December 18 was a special day in the Church's calendar to contemplate this profound mystery.Historically the Church, specifically the local church in Spain, celebrated a...
Time for the Soul to Absorb the Mysteries — Part 3: The Communion
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 18, 2017 at 7:00 am (Links to Part 1 and Part 2)Continuing our exploration of how the ancient Roman Rite has, built into it, sufficient time or leisure for the appropriation of its sacred content,...
