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Merry Christmas from ChurchPOP! Here’s Some of Our Best Christmas Content
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Midnight Mass at the London Oratory 2016
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 24, 2016 at 7:10 pm Some photographs taken tonight at Midnight Mass at the London Oratory. Merry Christmas!
Obamas Wish Americans Merry Christmas
The Religion Clause - Dec 24, 2016 at 5:51 pm In his Weekly Address, posted as a video on the White House website, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wished all Americans a Merry Christmas. In his address, the...
Settlement Reached In Dispute Over Muslim Cemetery
The Religion Clause - Dec 24, 2016 at 5:44 pm The town of Dudley, Massachusetts has reached an agreement to settle a suit brought by the Islamic Society of Greater Worcester that will allow a Muslim cemetery to be located in...
OLDIE: Fanon Alert! Benedict XVI and Christmas Mass
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 24, 2016 at 5:39 pm From 24 December 2013, of happy memory….
His Holiness has his fanon again for the First Mass of Christmas. Nice to see. More on the fanon, hated by liberals and the ungodly, HERE...
WDTPRS – 24 December – Novus Ordo: The consolations of Thy Coming
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 24, 2016 at 5:37 pm The Collect for today’s Mass in the Novus Ordo, the last of Advent, stares at the very threshold of the humble place where the Lord was born.
COLLECT (2002MR):
Festina, quaesumus...
"This Night of Glory, This Night of Joy, This Night of Light"
Whispers in the Loggia - Dec 24, 2016 at 5:12 pm HOMILY OF POPE FRANCISTHE NATIVITY OF THE LORD: MASS IN THE HOLY NIGHTST PETER'S BASILICA24 DECEMBER 2016“The grace of God has appeared for the salvation of all men” (Tit 2:11)....
We must free ourselves from materialism, Pope says at Midnight Mass
Catholic Herald - Dec 24, 2016 at 4:50 pm Pope Francis has urged Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus by thinking about the plight of today’s children, lamenting that some must escape bombs or flee in migrant boats...
Pope: ‘Let us allow ourselves to be challenged by the Child in the manger’
News.va - Dec 24, 2016 at 4:25 pm
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has urged Christians to allow themselves to be challenged by the Child in the manger, and also by the children of today’s world, so many of whom...
Pope Francis: Want to see God this Christmas? Be humble
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 24, 2016 at 4:01 pm Vatican City, Dec 24, 2016 / 03:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis noted how the coming of Jesus as an infant is paradoxical to the images of grandeur that had...
De Mattei - The Pope and Malta: A bogus commissioning
Rorate Coeli - Dec 24, 2016 at 3:40 pm Robert de Mattei
Corrispondenza Romana
December 24, 2016
Has the Pope appointed an external commissioner to the
Order of Malta? Pope Francis undeniably likes the strategy of...
Pope Francis on Christmas Eve: “It is a Night of Glory, a Night of Joy, a Night of Light”
Aleteia - Dec 24, 2016 at 3:30 pm VATICAN CITY — This Christmas Eve is a night of glory, a night of joy, and a night of light, Pope Francis said this evening as he celebrated Holy Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on...
The Vigil of the Nativity
Regina Magazine - Dec 24, 2016 at 3:28 pm December 24 Ascendit autem et Joseph . . . ut profittretur cutit Maria desponsata sibi uxore pregnant. “And Joseph also went up . . . to be enrolled with Mary his espoused wife,...
Merry Christmas from LifeSite!
LifeSiteNews - Dec 24, 2016 at 3:17 pm The entire LifeSiteNews family would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas!
“Let us be challenged by children who suffer in migrant boats and beneath the bombs”
Vatican Insider - Dec 24, 2016 at 2:51 pm “Let us allow the Child in the manger to challenge us, but let us also allow ourselves to be challenged by the children of today’s world, who are not lying in a cot caressed with...
Guest Op-Ed: "The Upcoming Burke-Bergoglio Battle over the Knights of Malta"
Rorate Coeli - Dec 24, 2016 at 1:48 pm A special Christmas guest Op-Ed, by Rev. Father "Ignotus":
The Upcoming Burke-Bergoglio Battle over the Knights of Malta
By Pater Ignotus
It is no secret that Pope Francis’s...
What time is Midnight Mass?
The Curt Jester - Dec 24, 2016 at 1:41 pm Steven D. Greydanus has a thoughtful piece on more and more Protestant churches being closed on Christmas Day. Christmas and culture: Closing churches on Christmas?
While this has...
The eight days of Christmas
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 24, 2016 at 1:38 pm Those who have had any musical training will recognize an octave as the eight notes of the musical scale: “Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do.”
Other octaves, those on the church...
ASK FATHER: Can Catholics observe Hannukah / Chanukah?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 24, 2016 at 1:22 pm From a reader:
Is it okay for us to observe Hanukkah in anyway?
It think it depends on what you mean by “observe”. We can sure watch with respect what Jews do at this time of...
Merry Christmas, all y’all!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 24, 2016 at 1:00 pm Have a glorious Feast of the Incarnation! I will be fairly scarce over the Holidays but will try to check in now and then! God bless you for reading my stuff and may you and all...
