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TOB Tuesday: Original Nakedness
Big C Catholics - Dec 20, 2016 at 7:00 am Editor's note: Each Tuesday we will feature posts discussing Saint John Paul the Great's Theology of the Body; his reflection on our nature and life as persons made in the image...
Keeping the Christmas Meaning Alive with Stories of the Holiday Symbols
CatholicMom.com - Dec 20, 2016 at 7:00 am
Copyright 2016 Tami Kiser. All rights reserved.
Storytelling is a lost art. But despite how poorly I attempt to do it, my children and now my grandchildren love it. And did you...
SCR006: Secrets of Rogue One
SQPN - Podcast Network - Dec 20, 2016 at 6:45 am
Caution: This episode contains spoilers!
Fr. Roderick Vonhögen and Domenico Bettinelli analyze Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
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New director of Vatican Museums is first woman in that role
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 20, 2016 at 6:44 am Barbara Jatta has been appointed by Pope Francis to be the new director of the Vatican Museums.
Pope drops in unexpectedly on Vatican council that organized Jubillee
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 20, 2016 at 6:39 am Pope Francis paid an unexpected visit to the offices of the Pontifical Council for New Evangelization on December 20, to thank the staff for their work in organizing events for...
Prelates’ ‘correction’ of Pontiff could come early next year: Cardinal Burke
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 20, 2016 at 6:36 am Cardinal Raymond Burke has said that he and other prelates may issue a “formal correction” of Pope Francis sometime early next year, if the Pontiff does not answer the dubia...
Cardinal Burke: Formal correction of Amoris Laetitia could happen in New Year
Catholic Herald - Dec 20, 2016 at 6:12 am In a new interview with Lifesitenews, Cardinal Raymond Burke has outlined a possible “formal correction” of Amoral Laetitia at some point after Christmas.
Cardinal Burke, who...
Where Will Ivanka and Her Husband Pray?
The Religion Clause - Dec 20, 2016 at 6:05 am Politico reported yesterday on the speculation swirling in Washington over which Orthodox synagogue "first-daughter" Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner will make their...
Senate Judiciary Chairman Refers Planned Parenthood Groups For Possible Prosecution
The Religion Clause - Dec 20, 2016 at 6:00 am U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee announced last week that he is referring several Planned Parenthood affiliates and companies, as well as...
5 Ways to Combat Spiritual Dryness during Advent and Throughout the Year
CatholicMom.com - Dec 20, 2016 at 6:00 am Copyright 2016 Hannah Christensen. Designed by the author in Canva.
We are moving at a rapid pace towards Christmas. Every week we light one more candle and every week at Mass we...
I Bet Putin Won't Say "What difference at this point does it make?"
Creative Minority Report - Dec 20, 2016 at 6:00 am I'm sure you've all seen that Russian diplomat being assassinated by that Muslim radical. What a horror. I pray that it will wake the world from its politically correct apathy....
Interviewing "Marty"
Commonweal - Dec 20, 2016 at 5:36 am For those dotCommonwealers who fail to check in at the magazine’s main desk, here’s a link to the interview I did with director Martin Scorsese, discussing his new movie, Silence...
Nuncio to Ukraine brings Christmas greetings from Pope
News.va - Dec 20, 2016 at 5:09 am (Vatican Radio) The Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, visited the Catholic communities of both the Greek and the Latin rites in Donetsk and Luhansk from...
Child injured in Egypt church attack dies
Catholic Herald - Dec 20, 2016 at 5:06 am Egypt’s state news agency says a 10-year-old girl who was critically wounded in the suicide bombing at a Cairo church earlier this month, has died of her wounds.
The fatality...
Catholic schools contemplating academy status should tread very carefully
Catholic Herald - Dec 20, 2016 at 4:51 am As with many priests and those involved in parishes, schools are part of my life which cannot be escaped. More than this I find a great deal of fulfilment from my involvement in...
Daily Gospel Reflection for December 20, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Dec 20, 2016 at 4:30 am Today’s Gospel: Luke 1, 26-38
The story of our salvation begins with a simple salutation, “Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you.” It sounds plain enough to us, but the Gospel...
Martyrs under communist regime in Laos beatified
Catholic Herald - Dec 20, 2016 at 4:25 am Catholic martyrs of various nationalities have been beatified in Laos, in the first such gesture toward communist regime victims in south-east Asia.
“The Catholic Church in Laos...
Cardinal Marx says Germans stand together following lorry attack
Catholic Herald - Dec 20, 2016 at 4:07 am Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the president of the German Bishops’ Conference, has said Germans “should stand together as a society” after the lorry attack on a Christmas market in...
Bishops mourn victims of deadly truck detour on Berlin Christmas market
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 20, 2016 at 3:50 am Vatican City, Dec 20, 2016 / 03:50 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
After 12 people were killed when a truck rammed into crowds at a Berlin Christmas market, the German bishops have voiced...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 20/12/16
Catholic Herald - Dec 20, 2016 at 3:39 am An archbishop has received death threats after helping to negotiate a peace deal in Colombia.
Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz has lamented that “after 25 years” Poles “are fighting...
