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Christmas on a Monday means twice the Mass this year

Aleteia - Dec 14, 2017 at 11:00 pm
The 4th Sunday of Advent is also the Vigil of Christmas -- two separate Mass obligations. Here’s how to plan your liturgical celebrations.If your calendar is as crowded as mine,...

SUPER RARE: St.Thérèse of Lisieux at Carmel

Aleteia - Dec 14, 2017 at 11:00 pm
Photo of the Day: December 15, 2017SUPER RARE: St.Thérèse of Lisieux, “The Little Flower,” and the sisters at the cloistered Carmelite community of Lisieux, Normandy. “In May 1887...

Prayer Request

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 14, 2017 at 10:42 pm
A reader writes: Good day to you! I’ve posted this on FB, but I would like to ask for as many prayers as I can. My mother slipped on the stairs and hit her head. After a trip to...

Priest Says He'd Love to Celebrate Gay Weddings

Creative Minority Report - Dec 14, 2017 at 10:34 pm
Yup. This headline says it all, doesn't it? "Same-sex marriage welcomed by Catholic priest, hopes to officiate weddings on Tiwi Islands."ABC.net:If the Catholic Church would allow...

Rejoice! It’s Gaudete Sunday! (3th Sun. of Advent)

The Sacred Page - Dec 14, 2017 at 10:12 pm
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Proposed Catholic hospital mega-merger assessed by Church officials

Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 14, 2017 at 9:00 pm
Denver, Colo., Dec 14, 2017 / 08:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholic ethics and church law must be at the center of a merger of two major Catholic health care systems that, if...

Mystery of the Magi

The Curt Jester - Dec 14, 2017 at 7:37 pm
At first I wasn’t much interested in Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s new book Mystery of the Magi: The Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men. I thought I already pretty well knew the...

The Only Way Out is Through

OnePeterFive - Dec 14, 2017 at 6:27 pm
Image: Bandai Namco Entertainment America, GODZILLA The Game – Reveal Trailer – Godzilla B&W 2, CC BY 3.0 I spent the past couple of hours cleaning out my email inbox. Not...

Former Facebook exec: ‘You don’t realize it but you are being programmed’

LifeSiteNews - Dec 14, 2017 at 6:27 pm
Social media is ‘ripping apart the social fabric,’ says one of the site’s creators.

New Polish PM sees return to Christian roots as only way to stop Europe&#8217;s decline

LifeSiteNews - Dec 14, 2017 at 6:21 pm
Morawiecki strongly opposes abortion, but has been a political pragmatist believing he has had to accept eugenic abortions.

She Had an Abortion Scheduled, But One Call Changed Everything

LifeNews.com - Dec 14, 2017 at 6:15 pm
The phone rang at a call center in Columbus, Ohio, this Thanksgiving weekend. On the other end of the line, a woman named and her young daughter were in tears, barely audible as...

Popes before Francis would have rejected his teaching on marriage: EWTN priest

LifeSiteNews - Dec 14, 2017 at 6:12 pm
The pope's teaching is not 'recognizably in harmony with the Catholic teaching.'

Christmas cash for the homeless: The legacy of one Denver priest continues

Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 14, 2017 at 5:51 pm
Denver, Colo., Dec 14, 2017 / 04:51 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- It was a chilly Thursday in December, with a dusting of snow on the ground. But that didn’t stop hundreds of poor and...

Couple: Our Child Wouldn’t Be Here Today if a Pro-Life Person Wasn’t Outside the Abortion Clinic

LifeNews.com - Dec 14, 2017 at 5:48 pm
Kirk Barker and his wife, Chass, know that their son would not be alive today if a pro-life advocate had not been outside their local abortion facility 15 years ago. Abortion...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Niece Was Almost Aborted Until Martin Luther King Sr. Intervened

LifeNews.com - Dec 14, 2017 at 5:31 pm
Alveda King, the niece of civil rights advocate Martin Luther King Jr., continues her uncle’s legacy by fighting for the rights of unborn babies across the world. King’s advocacy...

Israeli extremist sentenced for arson attack on Holy Land church

Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 14, 2017 at 5:11 pm
Jerusalem, Dec 14, 2017 / 04:11 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- An arson attack on the church complex at the site of Christ’s multiplication of loaves and fish on the Sea of Galilee has...

Senate Confirms Pro-Life Appeals Court Nominee Don Willett to Federal Appeals Court

LifeNews.com - Dec 14, 2017 at 5:01 pm
The Senate voted today to confirm Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Conservative groups strongly supported his nomination...

The scientifically proven way to get your kids to work harder

Aleteia - Dec 14, 2017 at 5:00 pm
This is how to make those chores more bearable.When it’s time to pick up his toys, my 5-year-old Lincoln has an epic meltdown. Every. Single. Time. “But I’m tired I don’t wanna...

Keep internet neutral, U.S. bishops say

Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 14, 2017 at 5:00 pm
Washington D.C., Dec 14, 2017 / 04:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On Thursday, the Federal Communication Commission voted to repeal net neutrality regulations, which the U.S. bishops...

Holy ghosts in Ohio: Cincinnati Enquirer reports on debate over aborting Down syndrome babies

GetReligion - Dec 14, 2017 at 4:39 pm
Down syndrome abortion ban: Lawmakers send bill to Ohio Gov. John Kasich https://t.co/vnopPi1HCD pic.twitter.com/JyynQqjIrc — Enquirer (@Enquirer) December 14, 2017 So often at...
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