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Patriarchs lament persecution of Middle East’s Christians
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:50 pm The Middle East’s Christians continue to suffer from severe persecution, the region’s Eastern Catholic patriarchs said in separate Christmas messages.
Nepal restores Christmas as holiday
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:29 pm Reversing a decision made earlier this year, the government of Nepal restored Christmas to the list of public holidays.
Daily Reflection — Glad Tidings
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:05 pm “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the...
Our Storybook World
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:04 pm Who doesn’t love a good story? I know I do. It’s part of the human thing, I think. People tell stories. We tell legends to explain our world. We tell long jokes to make us...
Encountering the Word — Hebrews 11:1
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old received divine approval. By faith...
An Examination of Conscience for the Feast of the Holy Innocents
Aleteia - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:00 pm What is the blood of innocent children worth? Is it worth everything? Nothing? Or somewhere in-between? Today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, when we recall the martyrdom of...
WATCH: What this 12 year-old boy does will astound and inspire you
Aleteia - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:00 pm Being kind and not mean would change the world a lot. – Campbell Remess, 12 Twelve year-old Campbell Remess would prefer spending all his time making teddy bears for sick children...
Prayer to St. Monica: Help my child turn to Christ!
Aleteia - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:00 pm Beloved Saint Monica, Mother of the great saint, Augustine of Hippo — Father and Doctor of the Church — had her hands full with her son who was both a brilliant student and...
Make the faith thick and the Church expensive
Aleteia - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:00 pm This should worry us. A major Jewish sociologist reports that “non-Orthodox Jewish trend lines resemble the trend lines for American Catholics and Mainline Protestants.” Hebrew...
4 Rules for criticizing with kindness
Aleteia - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:00 pm In his book Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, the American philosopher Daniel Dennett (who has been called “the Bertrand Russell of our day”) offers what he calls “the...
Watch as Andrea Bocelli and the Muppets struggle to find the right tempo for “Jingle Bells”
Aleteia - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:00 pm Andrea Bocelli joined the muppets on stage at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, but the group struggled to agree on the right tempo. Nevertheless, Bocelli of course still manages...
My son didn’t even go to Christmas Mass this year
Aleteia - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:00 pm Last year my now 22-year-old son came with us to Christmas Mass. He hadn’t been going to weekly Mass in a couple of years — at least since early college — but at least he came...
Belarus government underreports church attendance, prelate charges
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 27, 2016 at 10:55 pm The leading prelate in Belarus, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk-Mohilev, charged that the nation’s government is underreporting Catholic church attendance at Christmas...
Vermont diocese to observe ‘year of creation’
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 27, 2016 at 10:37 pm Vermont’s Catholic diocese will observe 2017 as the “Year of Creation.”
Russian Orthodox Church sends Christmas message to Pope Francis, Protestant leaders
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 27, 2016 at 10:18 pm The chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate sent Christmas greetings to Pope Francis, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the leader of the...
Salesians: video of kidnapped priest is authentic
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 27, 2016 at 10:08 pm A recently released video of Father Tom Uzhunnalil, an Indian priest kidnapped in Aden, Yemen, in March, is authentic, according to fellow Salesian priests.
Saints of the Old Testament: The Holy Innocents of Bethlehem, martyrs
Rorate Coeli - Dec 27, 2016 at 6:01 pm Triumph of the Innocents
William Holman Hunt, 1883-4
Today, the 4th day of Christmas, the Church celebrates the heavenly birthday of the Holy Innocents of Bethlehem, whom wicked...
University of Washington Officials Attempt to Hide Their Involvement in Selling Aborted Baby Parts
LifeNews.com - Dec 27, 2016 at 6:00 pm Thomas More Society attorneys have filed a notice of appeal seeking a reversal of a Preliminary Injunction issued in November by the United States District Court for the Western...
