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December 2013

December 31, 2013
In his book, You Can Change the World, The Christophers’ founder, Maryknoll Father James Keller,...
December 30, 2013
TV star and producer Dick Clark passed away in 2012, several years after being afflicted...
December 29, 2013
Many people start the New Year hoping to change for the better—lose weight, save money,...
December 28, 2013
Dotan Negrin, born in New York City, always wanted to be an actor.  But as...
December 27, 2013
Do you find it hard to save more and spend less money?  If so, you’re...
December 26, 2013
Following the post-Christmas blizzard that shut down large parts of New York City in 2010,...
December 25, 2013
The Scottish author and poet Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote books like Treasure Island and...
December 24, 2013
In the Salesian booklet Glad Tidings of Joy, Delight D. Kilyan shares a Christmas poem...
December 23, 2013
Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Matthew West has always had a year-round fascination with Christmas.  It’s not just...
December 22, 2013
During the 2011 Christmas season at an Omaha, Nebraska, Kmart, an anonymous donor paid $200...
December 21, 2013
Have you ever finished a busy day at work but been unable to relax once...
December 20, 2013
These days Lexie Davis considers himself blessed to be free of drug addiction.  For a...
December 19, 2013
The need to fit in has increased since the advent of social networking sites such...
December 18, 2013
Many people associate joy with Christmastime.  Churches remind us to “Rejoice and be glad” while...
December 17, 2013
Traveling on the road as a musician, Bob Rowe would use his off-stage hours to...
December 16, 2013
For the last 35 years, several parishes in Minnesota’s Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St....
December 15, 2013
Laura Collier was only eight when she traveled with her mother to China. She remembers...
December 14, 2013
Volunteers annually host a Christmas party at the New Milford, Connecticut firehouse for 40 youngsters...
December 13, 2013
Walking along the main avenue in her neighborhood on a Saturday afternoon, Maggie was thinking...
December 12, 2013
During Advent, do you ever look up at the crucifix and try to imagine Jesus...
December 11, 2013
When Kathleen Basi’s daughter was born and diagnosed with Down syndrome, she started to think...
December 10, 2013
Josef Vollmer-König was a widower for two years when he noticed that a song drawn...
December 09, 2013
Forty-six-year-old Roger Andersen lost control of his car due to weather conditions on a winding...
December 08, 2013
The weeks leading up to Christmas can sometimes seem like a burden: obligatory family events,...
December 07, 2013
A cafe owner was thinking about a way to give his customers the holiday spirit. ...
December 06, 2013
It’s become an annual tradition for CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman to visit with “Secret...
December 05, 2013
After managing liver disease for 15 years, Dennis Fearn of Long Island, New York, began...
December 04, 2013
Church bulletin bloopers are always good for a laugh.  Here are several that were cited...
December 03, 2013
Two weeks after he was beaten and robbed in St. Margaret of Scotland’s parish rectory,...
December 02, 2013
Eleven-year-old Zach Bennett of Albany, New York, was born with neurofibromatosis, a degenerative disease resulting...
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