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It's the most wonderful time of the year -- for many souls in Purgatory
Rorate Coeli - Dec 23, 2016 at 12:00 am It's been a long-held popular belief that Christmas is the day when the most souls are released from Purgatory.
Please send the names of your deceased loved ones before Christmas...
Agreement reported in Church-mediated Congo talks
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2016 at 11:45 pm An unexpected agreement in principle has been reached in Church-mediated talks between supporters of President Joseph Kabila and opposition leaders, the Reuters news agency...
Cardinal Mahony: churches may offer sanctuary to ‘DREAMers’ who face deportation
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2016 at 11:23 pm Writing in L’Osservatore Romano, Cardinal Roger Mahony, who served as archbishop of Los Angeles from 1985 to 2011, discussed the plight of “DREAMers”: persons who were brought...
Daily Reflection — Justice, Mercy and Peace
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 22, 2016 at 11:05 pm “He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still. He who loves his brother abides in the light, and in it there is no cause for stumbling. But he who...
St. Januarius, Christmas, and our response
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 22, 2016 at 11:04 pm Last week, the Italian Catholic church was given a shock—not because something miraculous happened, but because it didn’t happen. Three times a year, a reliquary holding the...
Daily Catholic Quote — O Antiphons: O Emmanuel
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 22, 2016 at 11:02 pm O Emmanuel: “O Emmanuel (God with us), our King and lawgiver, the expected of the nations and their Savior: come to save us, O Lord our God!” (Vespers for December 23rd; antiphon...
Encountering the Word — 1 John 2:9
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 22, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still.” (1 John 2:9) Please share this quote on social media. Print...
12 Songs of Christmas (from all around the world)
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm One of the great privileges of writing for Aleteia is seeing your words and ideas reach people all over the world. Even with our English Edition, our readership on social media...
Catholic Twitter Takes: What’s the silliest item your kid has enjoyed playing with?
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm With Christmas nearly here, parents around the world are making last-minute attempts to ensure they get that perfect gift their child will absolutely love and remember for the...
The manger and the miracle of the Body of Christ
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm At morning Mass, the image of the infant Jesus repeatedly flashed through my mind as I pondered the innocent body of Christ in the manger while simultaneously beholding his...
‘Passengers’ Review: Perfect recipe doesn’t quite turn out
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm On paper, Passengers reads like a perfect recipe. Hire a well-respected director fresh off an Academy Award nomination for his previous film, give him a script written by the...
O Emmanuel, God-With-Us: Come to us where we are!
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm O Emmanuel, Rex et legifer noster, exspectatio gentium, et Salvator earum: veni ad salvandum nos Domine Deus noster. (O Emmanuel, our King and Lawgiver, the Expected of the...
I believe in Christmas miracles — one happened to us!
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm The following is true and it happened to my family during the Christmas season of 1960. I remember it as if it happened today. There is no logical explanation save God intervened...
Star Wars abundance: The best Christmas gift I ever got!
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm “If I knew things would no longer be, I would have tried to remember better.” That’s a line from the 1990 movie “Avalon,” which comes to mind every Christmas season because it’s a...
Fasting Notes
Jimmy Akin.org - Dec 22, 2016 at 8:48 pm If you follow me on Facebook, you may have seen that I’ve recently been chronicling my weight loss journey there, and there’s been a lot of news to report! (The picture is one of...
Do you like “Connecting the Dots” and other fine shows on Breadbox Media?
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 22, 2016 at 7:19 pm Our Grand High Leader “Bad, Bad” Leo Brown writes Interested in helping your church or favorite nonprofit with a year end gift and at the same time help the amazing startup...
How Can Women Abort Their Babies and it Have No Emotional Impact? That’s What a Study Claims
LifeNews.com - Dec 22, 2016 at 6:16 pm This month, the JAMA Psychiatry published the latest findings from the abortion-turnaway study. This study compares health outcomes between various groups of women: The first...
Please help Baby Hannah and her family!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 22, 2016 at 5:46 pm Simcha Fisher writes: Please friends, pray for little baby Hannah and her loving family. Hannah was born premature, seemed to be doing okay, but then started having seizures. They...
Doctor Euthanized at Least Five Patients Saying “I Am Like God, I Am the Angel of Death”
LifeNews.com - Dec 22, 2016 at 5:33 pm Here’s an update on the romantically involved doctor and nurse accused of killing at least five patients and possibly dozens more between 2011 and 2014 in a hospital near Milan....
