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Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 16, 2016 at 10:09 am First, Anne Marie Delaney has been found and returned to her family. Second, a reader whose daughter had gone missing writes: God has answered my prayers in exactly the way I...
Fr. Cantalamessa: “strong wine” of Spirit overcomes unbelief
News.va - Dec 16, 2016 at 10:07 am (Vatican Radio) The Preacher of the Papal Household, Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap., delivered his third Advent sermon on Friday. Fr. Cantalamessa’s reflection focused on the...
Global document with local ties extols farming vocation
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 16, 2016 at 10:02 am The document “is really retrieving the idea of vocation for all those involved in agriculture,” said Jim Ennis, executive director of St. Paul-based Catholic Rural Life. “There’s...
Vatican police mark 200th anniversary with concert for needy children
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 16, 2016 at 10:01 am Vatican City, Dec 16, 2016 / 10:11 am (EWTN News/CNA).- In honor of their bicentenary, the Vatican Gendarmerie have decided to
celebrate with an act of mercy: they will host a...
Give! Receive! Rejoice!
CatholicMom.com - Dec 16, 2016 at 10:00 am In a twinkle of an eye, and faster than Santa’s sleigh’s departure off my rooftop, Christmas Day will soon be here! December 25 is fast approaching and will be here even before we...
Sharing the Word for December 17, 2016
Franciscan Media - Dec 16, 2016 at 10:00 am Saturday of the Third Week of Advent
December 17, 2016
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Genesis 49:2, 8-10
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/SW_121710_I.mp3...
Youths raise money, invest in loan to help poor people start businesses
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 16, 2016 at 9:59 am BUTLER, Minn. — Many years ago, a woman in Nicaragua was poor, but she had a sewing machine. She was lucky because it offered a way to make money that a lot of women in her...
Dominican Ordo for 2017 Available
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 16, 2016 at 9:47 am Dominican Liturgy Publications is happy to announce the publication of the Ordo for The Dominican Rite in 2017, which is the work of the editor of Breviarium S.O.P. This booklet...
Record-breaking year for the Coming Home Network
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 16, 2016 at 9:42 am Birmingham, Ala., Dec 16, 2016 / 09:42 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Dedicated to serving Catholic converts, the network Coming Home, will meet the closing of the year with record-breaking...
Peters on Popes and Heresy, Personal and Public
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 16, 2016 at 9:33 am Famed canonist Ed Peters today at his exceptional blog In The Light Of The Law has a piece that you will want to peruse.
He doesn’t have an open combox, but I do. Read, re-read,...
Cardinal Burke defends dubia signers in blockbuster EWTN interview
LifeSiteNews - Dec 16, 2016 at 9:33 am Cardinal Burke gave a wide-ranging interview about the dubia he and three other cardinals submitted asking for moral clarity on Amoris Laetitia.
Rock Band The National Donates Proceeds From Album Sales to Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
LifeNews.com - Dec 16, 2016 at 9:31 am If you’re a fan of The National, you may want to pause before buying their music. The indie rock band said it plans to donate a portion of its online store sales to the abortion...
Corruption is cancer to health industry, pope tells hospital staffers
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 16, 2016 at 9:29 am VATICAN CITY — Corrupt business practices that seek to profit from the sick and the dying are a cancer to hospitals entrusted with the care of the most vulnerable, especially...
New Movie Will Praise Racist Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger as an “Icon and Hero”
LifeNews.com - Dec 16, 2016 at 9:27 am Despite founding an organization that has become the nation’s biggest abortion business, Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger is being exalted by Hollywood as “an icon and...
Do you hear what I hear?
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 16, 2016 at 9:20 am
Now that Advent is coming to a close, I wanted to call your attention to our recently completed series on Advent hymns. This four-part series included columns written by...
Homily for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 18, 2016, Year A
Big C Catholics - Dec 16, 2016 at 9:18 am Joseph and Mary arrive at the inn. 14th century illuminationFr. Thomas J. Lane S.T.D.Associate Professor of Sacred ScriptureMt. St. Mary's SeminaryEmmitsburg, MD(Click here for...
An Advent poem
Commonweal - Dec 16, 2016 at 9:15 am A few years back, I offered a poem by British poet Sally Read on the nativity, which got mixed reviews. Now on her website I find another poem, this one for Advent. Comments...
Vatican police mark 200th anniversary with concert for needy children
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 16, 2016 at 9:11 am Vatican City, Dec 16, 2016 / 08:11 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In honor of their bicentenary, the Vatican Gendarmerie have decided to celebrate with an act of mercy: they will host a...
Tradition = More Fun
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 16, 2016 at 8:57 am The only thing that would make this better is if they also were wearing saturnos. HERE
I received this from a reader…
The annual firing of the “potato cannon” with the men of Our...
Sweet harmonies of Missouri cloistered nuns are fruit of their faith
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 16, 2016 at 8:45 am GOWER, Mo. — Tucked away off a rocky road in Gower in rural Missouri, a small community of cloistered nuns has just come out with a new Christmas album.
The Benedictines of...
