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Francis appeals for end of Aleppo fighting: war is ’pile-up of tyrannies and lies’
Vatican Insider - Dec 11, 2016 at 4:59 am Pope Francis has again appealed for an end to the brutal fighting in the Syrian city of Aleppo, calling war a “pile-up of tyrannies and lies” and asking people to say “no to...
Attack on Cairo's Coptic Orthodox cathedral kills 25
EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 11, 2016 at 4:47 am Cairo, Egypt, Dec 11, 2016 / 04:47 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- At least 25 persons were killed Sunday when a bomb exploded at a chapel attached to St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in...
Daily Gospel Reflection for December 11, 2016 - Third Sunday of Advent
CatholicMom.com - Dec 11, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Matthew 11, 2-11 – Third Sunday of Advent
Last year we visited the International Peace Gardens. Within this enormous expanse dedicated to the peace between Canada...
Is this the best new advent song of 2016?
Aleteia - Dec 11, 2016 at 3:21 am The Vigil Project just keeps getting better and better. Earlier this year they brought you a series of songs for Lent and Easter, and now they are offering a series of songs and...
ADVENTCAzT 15: Rejoice!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 11, 2016 at 12:01 am Here is ADVENTCAzT 15, for Gaudete Sunday the 3rd of Advent.
Today we hear from Pope Benedict, who talks about the Virgin’s “Yes!”
These 5 minute offerings, to help you prepare...
'First wave' of Trump-inspired lawsuits lead to panic among abortion advocates
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 11, 2016 at 12:00 am In a changed political landscape, pro-abortion rights groups have filed lawsuits against three states' abortion laws.
Scientists amazed by life-changing chemotherapy breakthrough
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 11, 2016 at 12:00 am The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first treatment of its kind to help patients undergoing chemotherapy.
Touching last-minute addition to Vatican Nativity pays homage to Italy's grief-stricken citizens
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 11, 2016 at 12:00 am The Vatican erected its Nativity scene and Christmas tree in St. Peter's Square on Friday, December 9. Everyone expected the beautiful Nativity, tree ...
Government caught in MASSIVE COVERUP - Doctor claims '18 million people will die'
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 11, 2016 at 12:00 am The UK estimates at least 23,000 people die every year as a direct result of antibiotic-resistant superbugs - but are those number accurate?
U.S. abuses the sick - Several states execute victims of mental illness
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 11, 2016 at 12:00 am More than 10 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in two separate cases that the death penalty is unconstitutional when applied to juveniles or the ...
The Truth About Mary
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 10, 2016 at 11:04 pm Our Lord entrusts each of us into the care of the most blessed of all women—Mary, His mother. Sammy was a playful boy, like most of the five-year olds in my kindergarten classroom...
Why the words we speak matter (especially after Communion)
Aleteia - Dec 10, 2016 at 11:00 pm Good sense makes a man slow to anger and it is his glory to overlook an offense. —Proverbs 19:11 With the tongue we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are...
Latin Catholic priest of 28 years switches to an ancient Eastern Rite, and explains why
Aleteia - Dec 10, 2016 at 11:00 pm A little-appreciated facet of the Catholic Church is the true diversity of Eucharistic liturgies available to Catholics, who are offered many forms and rites to meet their...
WATCH: So fun! 8 siblings’ grooving holiday dance video (wearing mom’s Christmas sweaters)
Aleteia - Dec 10, 2016 at 11:00 pm Christmas wouldn’t be the same for these eight siblings without their annual family Christmas dance. Each of them dons one of their mom’s old holiday sweaters, and they ...
How the aftereffects of shock therapy helped me identify with the Baby Jesus
Aleteia - Dec 10, 2016 at 11:00 pm I think I just realized something of what it felt like for Jesus to become a baby. Not fully, of course; but I’d always focused on the lowliness and helplessness He must have...
Good news and bad from the Monks of Norcia!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 10, 2016 at 10:01 pm I have good news and bad from the wonderful Benedictine Beer Monks of Norcia. You know that Norcia was flattened and that the monks have really had to scramble and adapt.
This...
Where God Was Born: A Tour Inside the Holy Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
ChurchPOP - Dec 10, 2016 at 9:29 pm The Gospels tell us that Jesus was born in cave or stable in Bethlehem “because there was no room for them in
The post Where God Was Born: A Tour Inside the Holy Church of the...
Hottest Book This Christmas! Faith Under Fire: Dramatic Stories of Christian Courage
Creative Minority Report - Dec 10, 2016 at 9:28 pm Perfect Christmas gift, folks.Faith Under Fire: Dramatic Stories of Christian Courage.Religious liberty is in peril in this country. We all know it. And now is the time when we...
“Ego Frater Maria Paulus”
Regina Magazine - Dec 10, 2016 at 8:40 pm Uttering these simple words on Dec. 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, our newly professed Br. Paul made history by becoming the first monk to make vows at San Benedetto...
7th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments Over State Regulation of Bible Colleges
The Religion Clause - Dec 10, 2016 at 5:57 pm The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday heard oral arguments in Illinois Bible Colleges Association v. Anderson (audio of oral arguments). In the case, an Illinois...
