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The party must go on – yes, into February
Catholic Herald - Dec 22, 2016 at 3:30 am One of the downsides of starting Christmas so soon is that it finishes too soon. Obviously, if the season starts commercially just after Halloween, and the Christmas lights go on...
Love can conquer hate – I’ve seen it happen
Catholic Herald - Dec 22, 2016 at 3:30 am An explosion of hatred and intolerance hit the world this year. From post-Brexit Britain to America’s Trump era, from ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma, mass protests...
Holiness is not to be sneered at
Catholic Herald - Dec 22, 2016 at 3:30 am There is something about a great many saints that annoys and even angers some people. Thus the recent canonisation of Mother Teresa revived in the press the various attacks that...
Residents of tiny Irish island express relief as priest is confirmed for Christmas Mass
Catholic Herald - Dec 22, 2016 at 3:29 am Residents of a remote Irish island have had their prayers answered when it was confirmed they would have a priest to celebrate Christmas Mass.
Fr Kieran Creagh had spent more than...
“Reform is not a facelift. It’s dark spots we need to worry about, not wrinkles”
Vatican Insider - Dec 22, 2016 at 3:28 am “Curia reform is not a facelift,” it is not a plastic surgery procedure “to get rid of wrinkles”, because “it is not wrinkles we need to worry about, it’s dark spots!” There is “...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/12/16
Catholic Herald - Dec 22, 2016 at 3:27 am Amoris Laetitia does not open “a door to a kind of ‘Catholic divorce'”, Vatican doctrinal chief Cardinal Gerhard Müller has said.
Catholics must care for those who are “virtually...
Court ruling ‘puts lives of severely disabled at risk’
Catholic Herald - Dec 22, 2016 at 2:47 am Severely disabled people who are unable to communicate are at greater risk of being dehydrated to death because of a court judgment allowing artificial hydration to be withdrawn...
New Study Misrepresents the Post-Abortion Experience
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 22, 2016 at 2:45 am
A study published last week in the journal JAMA Psychiatry claims to show that women facing an unwanted pregnancy do not suffer any negative impact on their mental health after...
The Christian Subtext to “Secular” Christmas Film Classics
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 22, 2016 at 2:40 am
That there is some sense in which Christmas can be said to have become “secularized” over the years is undoubtedly true. Nevertheless, this judgment may be overwrought. Perhaps...
ASK FATHER: Can I give SSPX followers Holy Communion?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 22, 2016 at 2:00 am From a reader, a priest…
QUAERITUR:
We offer the old mass every Sunday at midday. Missa cantata with very sound teaching.
There are individuals who choose to attend Sunday mass at...
Yesterday, Rod Bennett and I talked about why good Christmas stories…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 22, 2016 at 1:59 am …always have an element of terror to them:
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Old English
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 22, 2016 at 1:53 am Incipit gestis Rudolphi rangifer tarandus Hwæt, Hrodulf readnosa hrandeor – Næfde þæt nieten unsciende næsðyrlas! Glitenode and gladode godlice nosgrisele. Ða hofberendas mid...
Fascinating to see how people can overcome their differences
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 22, 2016 at 1:32 am …in a genuine desire for the common good: We’re now in a horse race to see if tribalism or love of the common good will prevail. Put me down in favor of the common good.
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In call to TV show, Pope says Christ’s birth overturned the world’s values
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2016 at 1:29 am Pope Francis spoke by telephone with the hosts of Unomattina, an Italian morning show on the television network Rai 1, as the show marked its 30th anniversary.
Taking a look at the boring genealogy in Matthew
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 22, 2016 at 1:23 am …and why it’s actually interesting, over at Catholic Weekly.
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8 sainthood, beatification causes advance
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2016 at 1:01 am In a December 21 audience with the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Pope Francis approved the publication of decrees that advance eight sainthood causes.
Iraqi archbishop: ‘we pray that President Trump will help us’
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2016 at 12:07 am Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) visited a camp in Erbil, Iraq, for 6,000 Christians who fled the advance of ISIS and criticized the Obama administration for failing to help them.
Syrian Christians Defiantly Celebrate Christmas in Aleppo, Then Suffer Bomb Attack
ChurchPOP - Dec 22, 2016 at 12:00 am This is what faith looks like. Aleppo, Syria has been a focus of intense fighting between the Assad regime and rebels. Before
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Our Inordinate Desire to Become Superhuman
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Dec 22, 2016 at 12:00 am Chris Hazell reminds us that God is the one who ultimately brings us to our glorified selves through his love and grace. We cooperate—to be sure—but he is the one responsible....
The Church at Christmas: The Light of Truth Shines In The Darkness
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 22, 2016 at 12:00 am "Christ is the light of humanity; and it is, accordingly, the heart-felt desire of this sacred Council, being gathered together in the Holy Spirit, ...
