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Merry Christmas, Everyone! Happy 9th Anniversary, Blog!
Journey of a Catholic Nerd Writer - Dec 25, 2016 at 8:07 pm I just wanted to write a quick "Merry Christmas, everyone!" message to you lovely readers. I hope y'all have had a beautiful and blessed Christmas. I hope y'all had a chance to go...
The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen
Big C Catholics - Dec 25, 2016 at 6:30 pm The Jews knew that Stephen was exceedingly well-informed in the laws of Moses; but as he preached, with great freedom, the Gospel of Christ, they ventured to dispute with him, to...
The 1914 Christmas Truce
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 25, 2016 at 5:49 pm From History.com:
Just after midnight on Christmas morning, the majority of German troops engaged in World War I cease firing their guns and artillery and commence to sing...
The Most Profound Writer on Christmas You’ve Never Heard Of: the Great St. Ephrem of Syria
ChurchPOP - Dec 25, 2016 at 5:42 pm He’s been called the “greatest poet of the patristic age,” he’s one of only 36 Doctors of the Church, and he wrote some
The post The Most Profound Writer on Christmas You’ve...
Christmas Day, The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Regina Magazine - Dec 25, 2016 at 5:04 pm December 25 The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Music: O Magnum Mysterium O great mystery, and wonderful sacrament, that animals should see the new-born Lord, lying in a manger...
"He Is Prince of Peace. Let Us Welcome Him!"
Whispers in the Loggia - Dec 25, 2016 at 2:46 pm CHRISTMAS MESSAGE OF POPE FRANCISURBI ET ORBIST PETER'S SQUARE25 DECEMBER 2016Dear Brothers and Sisters, Happy Christmas!Today the Church once more experiences the wonder of the...
Feast of Saint Stephen, Protomartyr
Big C Catholics - Dec 25, 2016 at 1:53 pm December 26th, is the Feast of Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr and archdeacon. He led the group of seven deacons who the Apostles appointed to help them minister to the...
The Assault on Germany's Christmas
Commonweal - Dec 25, 2016 at 1:49 pm This Christmas week has contained for me an unwelcome note of gloom and unease, with a recurring sequence of dark thoughts set in motion when I look at a gingerbread cookie, or at...
It's Christmas (1.0) in Bethlehem and the Associated Press still can't get its facts straight
GetReligion - Dec 25, 2016 at 1:00 pm Dear editors of the Associated Press:
I have a dream.
It's a Christmas dream, actually.
I dream that some Christmas morning, after I get home from church on Dec. 25th, I will pick...
Homily for the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, January 1, 2017, Year A
Big C Catholics - Dec 25, 2016 at 12:00 pm Homily of His Holiness Benedict XVIVatican Basilica Sunday, 1st January 2012Dear Brothers and Sisters!On the first day of the year, the liturgy resounds in the Church throughout...
Court Upholds Vaccination Requirement For Paramedic Clinical Students
The Religion Clause - Dec 25, 2016 at 11:07 am In George v. Kankakee Community College, 2016 Ill. App. Unpub. LEXIS 2760 (IL App., Dec.. 20, 2016), an Illinois state court of appeals upheld a hospital's policy requiring...
Merry Christmas
Saint Louis Catholic - Dec 25, 2016 at 11:00 am My sincere best wishes and prayers for a holy and happy Christmastide to all readers. Christ is born!
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Dec 25, 2016 at 10:48 am In Ali v. Eckstein, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 175024 (ED WI, Dec. 19, 2016), a Wisconsin federal district court ordered a Muslim inmate who sued over his inability to sign up to...
Sharing the Word for December 26, 2016 – Year 1
Franciscan Media - Dec 25, 2016 at 10:00 am Feast of St. Stephen
December 26, 2016
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Matthew 10:17-22
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St. Stephen is...
Pope pleads for peace in a world broken by conflict and terrorism
News.va - Dec 25, 2016 at 8:41 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis made an impassioned plea for peace on Sunday in a world broken by conflict, terrorism and injustice.
Speaking to an estimated 40,000 people...
Joyfully celebrate the coming of our salvation
Communio - Dec 25, 2016 at 8:26 am A Christmas sermon by Saint Augustine of Hippo
Awake, mankind! For your sake God has become man. Awake, you who sleep, rise up from the dead, and Christ will enlighten you. I tell...
On Christmas Day, Pope Francis prays for peace around the world
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 25, 2016 at 7:36 am Vatican City, Dec 25, 2016 / 07:36 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
In his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" blessing Christmas Day, Pope Francis prayed that the Child Jesus, also called the Prince...
Merry Christmas!
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 25, 2016 at 7:33 am Hodie nobis caelorum Rex de Virgine nasci dignatus est, ut hominem perditum ad caelestia regna revocaret: * Gaudet exercitus Angelorum: quia salus aeterna humano generi apparuit....
On Christmas Day, Pope Francis prays for peace around the world
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 25, 2016 at 6:36 am Vatican City, Dec 25, 2016 / 05:36 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" blessing Christmas Day, Pope Francis prayed that the Child Jesus, also called the Prince...
Pope Francis’ 2016 Christmas Message “Urbi et Orbi”
Aleteia - Dec 25, 2016 at 6:21 am VATICAN CITY — On a beautiful Christmas morning in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis delivered his 2016 Christmas message Urbi et Orbi to the city of Rome and to the world....
