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'We still continue living with love' - Heartsick Iraqi Christians in U.S. plan powerful midnight Mass
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 6, 2016 at 12:00 am Iraqi Christians who relocated to the United States admit this Christmas will be difficult without their loved ones, who remain trapped beneath the ...
John Kerry meets with Pope
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 5, 2016 at 11:44 pm Pope Francis received US Secretary of State John Kerry in a December 2 private audience.
South Sudanese bishop warns of potential massacre
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 5, 2016 at 11:29 pm The bishop of Yei, South Sudan’s second-largest city, told the Fides news agency that people there are at risk of being massacred by the president’s forces in the nation’s ethnic...
EU court rules against Romanian Catholic parish that sought return of its property
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 5, 2016 at 11:07 pm The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against a Romanian Greek Catholic parish that sought the return of its property from the Romanian Orthodox Church.
Daily Reflection — Let the clouds rain down the Just One
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 5, 2016 at 11:05 pm “Let the clouds rain down the Just One, and the earth bring forth a Savior…” (cf. Isaiah 45:8) I am encouraged by the number of people who by their service to others demonstrate...
Here’s why my kids get letters from Saint Nick every year
Aleteia - Dec 5, 2016 at 11:05 pm A few years ago I came across a book by J.R.R. Tolkien called “Letters from Father Christmas.” It is a collection of letters Tolkien wrote to his children every year at Christmas...
Why does my faith walk seem so lonely to me at times?
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 5, 2016 at 11:04 pm Dear Sister, Sometimes the living of my Catholic faith is a lonely walk for me. Why is that? Am I doing anything wrong? Sometimes I think, “Am I the only one feeling this way?”...
Daily Catholic Quote — from St. John Damascene
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 5, 2016 at 11:02 pm “Prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.” (St. John Damascene, priest and Doctor of the Church) The Optional Memorial of...
Encountering the Word — Acts 8:30-31
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 5, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and asked, ‘Do you understand what you are reading?’ And he said, ‘How can I,...
Pope Francis to celebrate Mass of Our Lady of Guadalupe in St. Peter’s Basilica
Aleteia - Dec 5, 2016 at 11:00 pm VATICAN CITY — For the third consecutive year, Pope Francis will celebrate Holy Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12th in St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican...
5 Prayers to pray when you’re in fear of death
Aleteia - Dec 5, 2016 at 11:00 pm Death. The darkening days of winter bring to mind the end of life, even as we prepare to celebrate the Birth of the One who brings an end to death. Even for Catholics, death...
Watch out Michael Bublé, there’s a new pop crooner in town
Aleteia - Dec 5, 2016 at 11:00 pm My ultimate goal is to make people look up and admire the transcendent beauty that can be experienced through music. — Nick Fabian Nick Fabian has been described as “the perfect...
Reorienting ourselves to the slow pace of Advent time
Aleteia - Dec 5, 2016 at 11:00 pm I listen halfheartedly to the dinner conversation as I roll warm purple wax between my fingers. Every time another stream of wax bursts down the side of the candle I daintily...
How to be a Secret Santa for the soul
Aleteia - Dec 5, 2016 at 11:00 pm The preparation for Christmases of my childhood began weeks before Thanksgiving. The family business was commercial greenhousing and included evergreens: wholesale garland, wreath...
WATCH: What is Advent about anyway? Besides the chocolate calendars…
Aleteia - Dec 5, 2016 at 11:00 pm Despite what you may have heard, Advent is not a penitential season, says Fr. Mike Schmitz in this Ascension Press video. Instead, it’s a season of “devout and joyful preparation...
What to do if you are feeling “lukewarm” in your faith
Aleteia - Dec 5, 2016 at 11:00 pm Dear Miss Fernandez, I enjoy reading your articles on Aleteia.org. Your article, “Try Total Immersion!” was beautiful! I wonder if maybe you would compose something for those who...
Jews, Muslims and the Meaning of Religious Freedom
Commonweal - Dec 5, 2016 at 10:46 pm Efforts to bring Muslims and Jews together in the wake of Donald Trump's victory in the presidential race seem to be gaining some traction.
Lauren Markoe of Religion News Service...
Cardinal Dolan welcomes papal statement on abortion and confession
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 5, 2016 at 10:30 pm Cardinal Timothy Dolan has welcomed Pope Francis’s statement in the apostolic letter Misericordia et Misera that “I henceforth grant to all priests, in virtue of their ministry,...
Astounding: Mysterious Electromagnetic Field Discovered at Tomb of Christ
ChurchPOP - Dec 5, 2016 at 10:22 pm Is this hard evidence of the Resurrection? As you may have heard, a team of scientists were recently permitted to open up
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