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Bishop rips lack of attention to bloodshed in South Sudan
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 30, 2016 at 4:44 am Bishop Erkolano Lodu Tombe of Yei, South Sudan, has denounced the “deafening silence of the media” and the “indifferent gaze of the international community” in the face of...
Catholic group files suit to block rule that could force doctors to perform sex-reassignment surgery
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 30, 2016 at 4:37 am The Catholic Benefits Association and the Diocese of Fargo, North Dakota have joined in a lawsuit against the federal government, challenging regulations that could be used to...
Daily Gospel Reflection for December 30, 2016 - Feast of the Holy Family
CatholicMom.com - Dec 30, 2016 at 4:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 2: 13-15, 19-23 – Feast of the Holy Family
A family becomes refugees…. a story that has been replayed millions of times. The alert to flee doesn’t usually...
Syria’s President Assad pays Christmas visit to convent
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 30, 2016 at 4:25 am Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad visited a Christian religious community on Christmas Day.
I’m being forgotten because I’m not European, says Indian priest kidnapped by ISIS
Catholic Herald - Dec 30, 2016 at 3:44 am The emergence of a video in which Salesian Fr Tom Uzhunnalil, kidnapped by ISIS in Yemen in March, is seen appealing for his release has led to widespread calls for diplomatic...
Chinese leader tells Catholics: follow socialism, not the Vatican
Catholic Herald - Dec 30, 2016 at 3:38 am One of China’s top leaders has told Chinese Catholics that they need to promote socialism and patriotism through religion and operate “independently” of non-Chinese authorities....
Almost four million pilgrims visited the Vatican in 2016
Catholic Herald - Dec 30, 2016 at 3:23 am More than 3.9 million pilgrims visited and attended papal events, liturgies or prayer services during the Holy Year of Mercy in 2016, the Vatican has announced.
The Prefecture of...
Multiculturalism: Islamic Style
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 30, 2016 at 2:10 am
“Schoolchildren banned from singing Silent Night over fears it will offend other religions.” So reads a headline in the Express. Instead of singing the lyrics which might “offend...
There’s a Patron Saint for That?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 30, 2016 at 2:00 am
It may strike many Catholics as odd, improper, even irreverent, that there would be a patron saint of hangovers. We know from personal experience that through the prayers of the...
The Ukrainian New Year’s Carol you didn’t know you knew
Aleteia - Dec 30, 2016 at 1:51 am You’ve probably never heard of Shchedryk (and probably have even greater difficulties trying to pronounce it), but watch the video above and you’ll quickly recognize a familiar...
Background: papal message for January 1, the World Day of Peace
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 30, 2016 at 1:47 am On January 1, the Church commemorates the 50th World Day of Peace. Pope Francis’s message for the day, released December 12, is devoted to “Nonviolence: A Style of Politics for...
He’s right, you know
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 30, 2016 at 1:31 am Former Obama staffer Michael Wear tries to tell the Smartest People in the Room that the Democrats really do have a religion problem and that the believers they so often hold in...
‘Madonna of the Miracle’ to be displayed in St. Peter’s Basilica
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 30, 2016 at 1:27 am Domenico Bartolini’s painting “Madonna of the Miracle” was on the stage in Paul VI Audience Hall during Pope Francis’s general audience of December 28.
Christmas Reflections: Letting the sometimes anticlimactic Christmas season sink in
Aleteia - Dec 30, 2016 at 1:22 am The Vigil Project recently released their sixth original song for the Advent and Christmas season. The song, featuring Greg&Lizzy, is entitled “You Gave Us Your Love.” Greg...
Nearly 4 million saw Pope at Vatican events in 2016
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 30, 2016 at 12:45 am An estimated 3,952,140 people attended papal events at the Vatican in 2016—up from 3,210,860 the previous year, but down substantially from 2014 (5,916,800) and 2013 (6,623,000).
Dominican Republic: bishops lament presidential veto of pro-life bill
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 30, 2016 at 12:18 am President Danilo Medina of the Dominican Republic has vetoed a bill that would have forbidden abortion except when a mother’s life is at risk, after “all attempts have been made...
Honor the Holy Family by Becoming a Holy Family
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 30, 2016 at 12:00 am We should learn the meaning and mystery of this Feast and apply it to
our own family life. The path to our own holiness is found in living our
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Octave of Christmas - The Feast of the Holy Family
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 30, 2016 at 12:00 am The silence of Nazareth should teach us how to meditate in peace and quiet, to reflect on the deeply spiritual, and to be open to the voice of God's ...
Feast of the Holy Family: Learning to Love, Pray and Live in the School of Nazareth
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 30, 2016 at 12:00 am Jesus spent 30 of his 33 earthly years in Nazareth. Some spiritual writers have called these the 'hidden years', because there is so little written ...
The Mystery of Mary, the Mother of God
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Dec 30, 2016 at 12:00 am This Sunday we celebrate the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Mother of God. What lesson can be discerned in this revelation? Father Steve Grunow offers his homily as a means to discern...
