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If the Vatican wants to reach out the world, it should just stick to English
Catholic Herald - Dec 15, 2017 at 5:17 am What a very good idea for the Church in Poland to launch its own Twitter account in English. Polish is a very difficult language and sadly few non-Poles ever learn it; this way...
Let clarity and compassion define sexual identity debates, bishops say
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 15, 2017 at 5:07 am Washington D.C., Dec 15, 2017 / 05:07 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- In a time of cultural conflict and mistaken ideas about sexual identity, religious leaders have put forth their...
How our five senses draw us into the mystery of Advent
Aleteia - Dec 15, 2017 at 5:00 am A season like Advent makes time-travelers of us all. Outside of Ordinary Time, and connected to the Church of old.When you first hear the leaves crunching in autumn, or smell wood...
Apostolic nuncio to US speaks with EWTN News Nightly
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 15, 2017 at 4:48 am Washington D.C., Dec 15, 2017 / 04:48 pm (EWTN News).- Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the US, spoke with
EWTN News Nightly's Lauren Ashburn on Wednesday,...
Let’s not commercialise Our Lady of Guadalupe
Catholic Herald - Dec 15, 2017 at 4:31 am “I am pious Aeneas, who carries my household gods in my ship with me, having snatched them from my enemies.” This is the narrative that, for centuries, animated the Irish-American...
Indonesian children still in recovery mode 1 year after church bombing (World Watch Monitor)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 15, 2017 at 4:12 amProtestant pastor in Indonesia charged with blasphemy (UCANews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 15, 2017 at 4:12 am Over 100 Indonesians have faced blasphemy charges since 2005; this case is the first involving a Christian leader.
+Father Andrew Apostoli, 75 (National Catholic Register)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 15, 2017 at 4:12 am The priest was co-founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.
Mali bishops' official warns of rising jihadist influence in region (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 15, 2017 at 4:12 am The African nation of 17.5 million is 95% Muslim and 2% Christian.
Indian prime minister attacks archbishop over pastoral letter on state election (National Catholic Register)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 15, 2017 at 4:12 am Archbishop Thomas Macwan of Gandhinagar warned that rising Hindu nationalism threatens religious freedom and democracy in India.
Nigeria: 2 catechists murdered by Boko Haram suicide bomber (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 15, 2017 at 4:12 amPriest discusses silent missionary witness in Afghanistan (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 15, 2017 at 4:12 am From 1990 to 2015, Father Giuseppe Moretti served as a missionary in Afghanistan, where evangelization is outlawed.
2 companies reach $7.7M settlement over allegations of selling fetal tissue (Los Angeles Times)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 15, 2017 at 4:12 amHow does an astronomer explain the science behind the Christmas phenomenon? (Vatican Observatory Foundation)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 15, 2017 at 4:12 amCatholic Church in Australia commits to ensuring justice for sex abuse victims
EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 15, 2017 at 4:12 am Canberra, Australia, Dec 15, 2017 / 04:12 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- In a wide-ranging report released Friday, Australia's royal commission found serious failings in the protection of...
This year, I’ve come to appreciate just how vulnerable the baby Jesus was
Catholic Herald - Dec 15, 2017 at 3:39 am We are, or certainly ought to be, used to thinking of “the scandal of Easter”. That God’s foolishness – “Christ, and him crucified” – is wiser than man’s wisdom. That, in the...
Pope thanks his envoy to UN for promoting Vatican viewpoint (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 15, 2017 at 3:12 am In an interview with Vatican Radio, Archbishop Bernadito Auza (the Holy See’s envoy to the UN) discussed nuclear weapons and migration.
Former Archbishop Alphonsus Penney dead at 93 (CBC News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 15, 2017 at 3:12 am The Canadian prelate resigned in 1990 when a commission found that he likely lied about his knowledge of clerical abuse in his archdiocese.
Post-ISIS, the first Catholic church is reconsecrated on Nineveh Plains (Aid to the Church in Need)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 15, 2017 at 3:12 am Telleskuf (also known as Tesqopa) was a largely Catholic town of 11,000 before its capture by ISIS. The Hungarian government and Aid to the Church in Need funded the church’s...
North American Orthodox-Catholic dialogue critiques document on primacy, synodality (USCCB)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 15, 2017 at 3:12 am In 2016, the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church met in Chieti, Italy, and published “Synodality and...
