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December 2015

December 24, 2015
Here's something unusual: a secular newspaper writing about a significant move in local Catholic worship:...
December 24, 2015
My homily for Midnight Mass in 2007, reposted here along with my prayerful good wishes...
December 24, 2015
From Reuters:  One Catholic parish in Germany tore out its pews to make space for...
December 23, 2015
CNS visited a refugee camp for displaced Iraqi Christians in Erbil, Iraq for a look...
December 23, 2015
From Richmond, Kentucky:  It was author George Whitman who wrote "Be not inhospitable to strangers,...
December 23, 2015
Politico calls it a "Mass," though that's misleading. It's an Episcopal liturgy. Details:  Donald Trump’s...
December 23, 2015
If you've never heard of David Willcocks, chances are you have heard his musical arrangements...
December 23, 2015
He becomes, evidently, only the second pope to be honored, after John Paul II in...
December 23, 2015
In a televised address yesterday, King Abdullah II had some warm words for Christians marking...
December 23, 2015
Details:  The landmark conviction of a Roman Catholic church official imprisoned over his handling of...
December 22, 2015
This is different:  A church that used to be a spiritual center for the working class...
December 22, 2015
I was cheered to see this story and accompanying pictures, showing details of a new...
December 22, 2015
Details:  Iraq's new beauty queen received a threatening phone call on Tuesday telling her to...
December 22, 2015
From Reuters:  Somali Islamist militants sprayed a Kenyan bus with bullets on Monday, killing two...
December 21, 2015
Someone is going to get rich off this idea: Pros: Inexpensive, doesn't need a battery....
December 21, 2015
From the pages of Crisis, Rachel Lu offers her opinion on female altar servers, and...
December 21, 2015
More young people see Christmas as a secular rather than religious holiday, according to a...
December 21, 2015
John Allen speculates:  In moves that clearly seem to afford English-speaking communications officials in the...
December 21, 2015
From Vatican Radio:  Pope Francis has urged the Roman Curia to “return to the essentials”...
December 21, 2015
Churches will be crowded soon with more people heading to Mass who don't regularly attend. We'll...
December 20, 2015
It's got a little self-examination ("Making a list, checkin' it twice"), a penitential spirit ("You better be...
December 20, 2015
Eye-popping headline aside, this is an interesting look at how one parish in New York...
December 20, 2015
Details:  Artists have long interpreted Jesus’ final meal with his apostles, from Leonardo da Vinci’s...
December 20, 2015
The Hindustan Times looks at the reasons why: For five years, Omar Fernandes worked as...
December 19, 2015
It's the guy on the left (seen here last summer in Buffalo). From Rocco:  While...
December 19, 2015
From CNA:  On Wednesday Pope Francis met with members of the organization in charge of...
December 19, 2015
Finally, the weeks of yearning, waiting, dreaming and wondering have come to an end. The...
December 18, 2015
This is great: Ireland getting into the spirit of the Year of Mercy, by offering...
December 18, 2015
The scene above (which I snapped with my cellphone a few days ago) can be...
December 18, 2015
A look at a teenager's unexpected conversion, via Huffington Post:  About five years ago Natalie...
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