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Bishop to speak at parade celebrating Mohammad’s birthday
Catholic Herald - Dec 8, 2017 at 7:05 am Bishop John Arnold of Salford is to speak at a parade celebrating Mohammad’s birthday on Sunday. The bishop will be among a number of speakers addressing the crowd before it sets...
'Crown Jewel' of nation's basilica blessed in DC
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 8, 2017 at 7:01 am Washington D.C., Dec 8, 2017 / 07:01 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- With the blessing of its final mosaic, America's Basilica – The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in...
Daily Reading for Monday, December 11th, 2017 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 8, 2017 at 7:00 am Reading 1, Isaiah 35:1-10
1 Let the desert and the dry lands be glad, let the wasteland rejoice and bloom; like the asphodel,
2 let it burst into ...
Was Jesus born B.C. or A.D.?
Aleteia - Dec 8, 2017 at 7:00 am Is it possible Jesus was born "Before Christ"?By the 6th century there developed a method of counting calendar years that took Jesus’ birth as the starting point. The years prior...
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception 2017
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 8, 2017 at 7:00 am The choir of the prophets proclaimed of old the Maiden unblemished and holy, whose child is God, whom Anna conceived, that was sterile and without progeny; with rejoicing of heart...
Daily Reading for Sunday, December 10th, 2017 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 8, 2017 at 6:54 am Reading 1, Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11
1 'Console my people, console them,' says your God.
2 'Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and cry to her that her period ...
With prayer and aid, Catholics rally around California wildfire victims
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 8, 2017 at 6:45 am Ventura, Calif., Dec 8, 2017 / 06:45 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The massive wildfires of California have drawn calls for prayer and
assistance from the U.S. bishops, as Catholic...
Gregorian chant called seminarian to Catholicism
Franciscan Media - Dec 8, 2017 at 6:42 am WASHINGTON (CNS) — As Gabe Bouck enters Advent, a season in which Catholics are urged to answer God’s call for conversion, the seminarian is reminded of the melodic voice that...
Beauty advice from Pope Francis: Be virtuous like Mary
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 8, 2017 at 6:37 am Vatican City, Dec 8, 2017 / 06:37 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
On Friday's Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Pope Francis offered his own 'beauty secret' – with Mary as model – saying...
The European democracy still haunted by the ghosts of famine
Catholic Herald - Dec 8, 2017 at 6:14 am A couple of years ago my youngest son spent several months living in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. When I asked him what it was like there, he said: “It’s deeply corrupt.” Ukraine...
Rabbinical College Wins Challenge To Zoning and Environmental Laws
The Religion Clause - Dec 8, 2017 at 6:05 am In Congregation Rabbinical College of Tartikov, Inc. v. Village of Pomona, NY, (SD NY, Dec. 7, 2017), a New York federal district court in a 112-page opinion held that various...
Top 5 tunes from Johnny Cash’s Christmas cache
Aleteia - Dec 8, 2017 at 6:00 am The “Man in Black” was a sucker for red and green.Johnny Cash loved Christmas. Over the course of his illustrious career he released seven Christmas albums and his TV show, The...
Court Upholds FEMA Policy Denying Disaster Grants To Religious Facilities
The Religion Clause - Dec 8, 2017 at 6:00 am In Harvest Family Church v. Federal Emergency Management Agency, (SD TX, Dec. 7, 2017), a Texas federal district court refused to issue a preliminary injunction against a FEMA...
It's All Grace: The Meaning of the Immaculate Conception
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Readings for December 8: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Beatitudes rank...
Bishop condemns nativity scene which replaces crib with rubber dinghy
Catholic Herald - Dec 8, 2017 at 5:53 am An Italian bishop has clashed with the local mayor over a nativity scene which replaces the crib with a dinghy. The mayor of Castenaso, Stefano Sermenghi, said he had made the...
The devastating but little-noticed DRC refugee crisis
EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 8, 2017 at 5:49 am Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec 8, 2017 / 05:49 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Every day, thousands of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are forced to flee their...
US Justice Department investigates Planned Parenthood for fetal tissue sales
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 8, 2017 at 5:43 am Washington D.C., Dec 8, 2017 / 05:43 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a formal investigation of
Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest provider...
Beauty advice from Pope Francis: Be virtuous like Mary
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 8, 2017 at 5:37 am Vatican City, Dec 8, 2017 / 04:37 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Friday’s Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Pope Francis offered his own ‘beauty secret’ – with Mary as model – saying...
Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God
Communio - Dec 8, 2017 at 5:32 am The dogma of the Immaculate Conception has this as its sole significance: that no human being can set in motion salvation by their own powers alone, but that their Yes is wrapped...
Official pilgrimages to Medjugorje are now permitted, says Pope’s envoy
Catholic Herald - Dec 8, 2017 at 5:18 am Official pilgrimages to Medjugorje are now permitted, the Polish archbishop in charge of assessing the pastoral situation at the shrine has said. Archbishop Henryk Hoser of Warsaw...
