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December 2015

December 18, 2015
From Vatican Radio:  Blessed Teresa of Calcutta is to be made a Saint. Pope Francis on...
December 17, 2015
Just in time for Christmas, and the beginning of the Year of Mercy, comes this...
December 17, 2015
From Vatican Radio:  As you arrive at the Holy Door of the Caritas centre for...
December 17, 2015
Barry Hudock at OSV lists some of the significant changes we can expect: So what’s...
December 16, 2015
From The Catholic Review in Baltimore: Maybe it’s the fact that he’s their patron saint....
December 16, 2015
Fr. Mark Goldasich in the Kansas City newspaper, The Leaven, unloads: Right before Thanksgiving, a friend...
December 16, 2015
You'll probably remember this story from last month. Now, a resolution. Details:  In November of 2015,...
December 16, 2015
How's this for a great story for the season: A mystery donor told Walmart employees...
December 16, 2015
From Christianity Today:  A tenured Wheaton College political science professor who pledged to wear a...
December 16, 2015
Yes, in Michigan:  It may surprise some to learn Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield...
December 16, 2015
From The International Business Times: Italian police arrested two illegal migrants, who attacked soldiers on...
December 15, 2015
This is impressive:  In a video that has captured a national audience, East Catholic High...
December 15, 2015
This story is hurtling around the interwebs this week—no doubt because Christmas is close: He...
December 15, 2015
Check this out:  Fox is set to air a live two-hour musical event about Jesus,...
December 15, 2015
From the Vatican news site: The self-styled Islamic State of jihadists beheaded three well-known Sunni...
December 15, 2015
Courtesy Rome Reports, a brief but potent new video that challenges the viewer to look...
December 15, 2015
The statistics are surprising—even more so in a continent that is still predominantly Catholic, via...
December 15, 2015
It's a provocative and challenging question. My colleague Fr. Elias Mallon weighs in:  Can Christians...
December 15, 2015
You may remember this practice stirred some criticism a couple weeks ago. Now, authorities are investigating:...
December 14, 2015
Details:  President Obama supports the right of Muslim Americans to celebrate religious holidays, the White...
December 14, 2015
Great advice:  In his speech accepting the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night, Alabama running back...
December 14, 2015
From Vatican Radio:  The Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life...
December 14, 2015
The leader of the band that was performing the night of the Paris terror attacks...
December 13, 2015
Wha---?  Santa Claus is banned. The Pledge of Allegiance is no longer recited. “Harvest festival”...
December 13, 2015
From The Charlotte Observer:  St. Matthew Catholic Church, one of the largest Catholic churches in...
December 12, 2015
Detroit has a large Muslim immigrant population, so it is significant that the Archbishop of...
December 12, 2015
From America:  According to Chicago's Catholic Extension society, Pope Francis plans to celebrate an afternoon...
December 12, 2015
Uncommon sense, and holy wisdom, from Omar Rikabi:  I have a Muslim problem. I am...
December 12, 2015
In the pages of The New Republic, Elizabeth Bruenig looks at how the phenomenon of...
December 12, 2015
“What should we do?” That is the question of the day, isn’t it? In this...
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