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Town Sued Over Cross On Christmas Tree
The Religion Clause - Dec 10, 2016 at 5:46 pm As reported yesterday by Fox 59 News, the ACLU has filed suit on behalf of a resident of Knightstown, Indiana against the city challenging the cross that tops the Christmas tree...
Legal group: Federal law can't require sterilizations at Catholic hospitals
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 10, 2016 at 5:09 pm Flint, Mich., Dec 10, 2016 / 04:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Hospitals run according to Catholic ethics shouldn’t be coerced into performing sterilizations, a legal group has said...
When Using Holy Water: Prayer of the Day for Sunday, December 11, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 10, 2016 at 5:02 pm By this holy water and by Your Precious Blood, wash away all my sins, O Lord.
St. Theresa of Avila on holy water: "From long experience I have ...
Pope Saint Damasus I: Saint of the Day for Sunday, December 11, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 10, 2016 at 5:02 pm All lovers of Scripture have reason to celebrate this day. Damasus was the pope who commissioned Saint Jerome to translate the Scriptures into Latin, ...
Daily Readings for Sunday, December 11, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 10, 2016 at 5:02 pm Reading 1: Isaiah 35:10, Reading 1: Isaiah 35:1-6, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 146:6-10, Gospel: Matthew 11:2-11, Reading 2: James 5:7-10
POLL: Did you see Rose vestments on “Gaudete” Sunday 2016?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 10, 2016 at 4:08 pm Here is a little poll for your 3rd Sunday of Advent, Gaudete.
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Ten Amazing Facts About the Miraculous Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Big C Catholics - Dec 10, 2016 at 4:00 pm In honor of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, [December 12th] here are ten amazing facts about the image of Our Lady as seen on Saint Juan Diego's tilma that defy scientific...
Gaudete Sunday 2016 Photopost Request
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 10, 2016 at 4:00 pm We are still receiving photos of celebrations of the Immaculate Conception, which will be posted in a day or two, but we will also do a photopost of Gaudete Sunday Masses,...
Life’s Little Ironies
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 10, 2016 at 3:11 pm A reader writes: Ironic, innit, that the party obsessed with preserving the inviolate integrity of American elections against voter fraud by non-citizens trying to vote in our...
Somebody chewed me out for saying that we prolife Catholics…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 10, 2016 at 2:20 pm …must take responsibility for the social and economic pressures that drive women to abortion. They wrote: “Pro-lifers aren’t responsible for other people’s choices. It wasn’t pro-...
Pope to seminarians: Don't let self-interest get in the way of ministry
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 10, 2016 at 12:31 pm Vatican City, Dec 10, 2016 / 11:31 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Saturday Pope Francis spoke to seminarians about the three-fold ministry of the priest: welcoming and including all,...
Rejoice in Hope: A Reflection for the Third Sunday of Advent
CatholicMom.com - Dec 10, 2016 at 12:30 pm
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Readings for December 11, 2016: Third Sunday of Advent
Reflection on #Sunday #Gospel by...
Vatican Nativity scene includes spire from Basilica of St. Benedict in Norcia
Aleteia - Dec 10, 2016 at 12:00 pm VATICAN CITY — The Vatican nativity scene has a unique addition this year: a spire from the Basilica of St. Benedict in Norcia, Italy. The Basilica was one of dozens of churches...
Saint Eulalia, Child Martyr
Regina Magazine - Dec 10, 2016 at 11:15 am December 10 Today is the feast day of Saint Eulalia. Ora pro nobis. Saint Eulalia was a native of Merida, in Spain. The daughter of Christian parents, she was taught in her...
Growing churches vs. declining churches: Canadian study says 'Theology Matters'
GetReligion - Dec 10, 2016 at 11:05 am
Talk about the revenge of the "tmatt trio"!
Regular readers of this blog may remember the set of questions that, since the dawn of GetReligion in 2005, we have referred to as the...
The Translation of the Holy House of Loretto
Regina Magazine - Dec 10, 2016 at 10:06 am December 10 Today is the feast day of the The Translation of the Holy House of Loretto. by Fr. Francis Xavier Weninger, 1876 By “the Holy House,” we understand the blessed house...
Praise Moments: "Winter Snow" by Audrey Assad
CatholicMom.com - Dec 10, 2016 at 10:00 am
This week’s Praise Moment is one of the 3 songs on Audrey Assad’s new Winter EP: “Winter Snow.” While the video is an older performance of the song, it emphasizes Audrey Assad’s...
WDTPRS – 4th Gaudete Sunday of Advent: All the orations at once!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 10, 2016 at 8:56 am This Sunday’s nickname, “Gaudete” means “Rejoice!” Gaudete, an imperative of gaudeo and the first word of the Introit chant, sets the theme in the Novus Ordo and the older,...
The Holy House of Loreto
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 10, 2016 at 8:40 am Every Catholic country has a Marian shrine which may be regarded as its national shrine of the Mother of God par excellence, such as Lourdes in France and Czestochowa in Poland;...
The Gist: Live Every Day
CatholicMom.com - Dec 10, 2016 at 8:30 am
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Now in its sixth season, CatholicTV Network’s series for Catholic women, The Gist, airs every Tuesday morning at 11 AM Eastern. Tune in to...
