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Have Yourself a Counter-Cultural Advent
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 1, 2016 at 11:04 pm Here we are once again, beginning my favorite season of the year: Advent. It’s the longest it can possibly be this year, too, so it’s a good thing I like it. I’ve decided that...
Daly Catholic Quote — from Saint John Paul II on Peace and Justice
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 1, 2016 at 11:02 pm “Peace is built on the foundation of justice.” (Saint John Paul II; Encyclical – Centesimus annus, §5, May 1, 1991) Print this entry
Encountering the Word — 1 John 3:1-3
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 1, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is...
More turn to faith-based health care ministries as Obamacare premiums soar
Aleteia - Dec 1, 2016 at 11:00 pm Whether or not President-elect Donald J. Trump is successful in his quest to repeal and replace Obamacare, about 300,000 Americans are likely to continue getting their healthcare...
From drug addicts to evangelists: Meet the couple behind Catholic music group “Reale”
Aleteia - Dec 1, 2016 at 11:00 pm Italian couple Alessandro Gallo and Francesa Cadorin have an atypical love story: The two met in rehab. The two were addicted to drugs from the time they were young. At 17 and 19...
“Silence” actors made silent retreat to prepare for Scorsese film
Aleteia - Dec 1, 2016 at 11:00 pm To prepare for Martin Scorsese’s film adaptation of the Catholic novel Silence, actors Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge, The Amazing Spider-Man) and Adam Driver (Star Wars: The...
How Advent helps us, especially when life gets tough
Aleteia - Dec 1, 2016 at 11:00 pm Those who see only limits feel lost in a senseless universe. They live a despondent life-style. Those who see limits as possibilities to go beyond live a hopeful life-style…...
George Bailey is the personification of all of our demons and better angels
Aleteia - Dec 1, 2016 at 11:00 pm One of the best things about this season is that, invariably, someone writes about It’s A Wonderful Life, and muses on the complex, sometimes dark character of George Bailey....
This is the Christmas album you have been waiting for
Aleteia - Dec 1, 2016 at 11:00 pm The Light Came Down, a new collection of Christmas songs and hymns from indie songwriter Josh Garrels, is not your typical Christmas album. Right from the title track (heard...
“This is a kiss from the pope…”: Francis’ letter to a dying girl
Aleteia - Dec 1, 2016 at 11:00 pm VATICAN CITY — On November 23, in the small Apulian town of Massafra, in the southeastern Italian province of Taranto, a funeral was celebrated for young Paolina, a 10-year-old...
Could testosterone be the key to curing prostate cancer?
Aleteia - Dec 1, 2016 at 11:00 pm About one man in seven will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime. According to the American Cancer Society’s estimates for prostate cancer in for 2016, about 180,890...
My Martha Stewart Advent that crashed and burned… again
Aleteia - Dec 1, 2016 at 11:00 pm I scrolled through Instagram last night before bed and was overwhelmed by the beautiful pictures of Advent wreaths posted by my Catholic mom friends. This was, of course, after...
2 million pilgrims expected in Spanish town for jubilee year
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2016 at 10:28 pm More than two million pilgrims are expected to travel to Caravaca de la Cruz, Spain, in 2017 for a jubilee year.
ACU: Distance education with a difference
The Catholic Leader - Dec 1, 2016 at 10:17 pm When Dr Nicole Archard decided to study for her masters she had temporarily moved out of the Catholic school system. “I was missing the connection I’d felt within that community...
Ecumenical Patriarch points to areas of agreement with Pope
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2016 at 9:52 pm Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who holds a primacy of honor in Eastern Orthodoxy, emphasized the many areas of agreement between Pope Francis and himself in...
Attack on Christians in Egyptian village
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2016 at 9:35 pm A group of Muslims in an Egyptian village, fearing that a community center would become a church, burned down the center, looted businesses owned by Coptic Christians, and...
Caritas: mixed review of UN climate conference
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2016 at 8:50 pm Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s federation of relief and development agencies, said that the recent COP22 UN climate conference in Marrakech, Morocco, sent a “positive yet...
Illinois bed & breakfast fined $81K for declining to host same-sex ceremony
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2016 at 8:39 pm The owners of Timber Creek Bed & Breakfast in Paxton, Illinois, have been fined over $81,000 for declining to host a homosexual civil union ceremony in 2011.
“Miracle Amid the Destruction”: Wildfire Destroys Everything But Jesus Statue
ChurchPOP - Dec 1, 2016 at 8:26 pm The recent wildfires in the southeastern United States have been devastating, with lives lost, countless homes destroyed, and thousands of acres burned. But
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