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"Time spent with the sick is holy time": Pope releases Sapientia Cordis to mark 2015 World Day of the Sick


Physicians have ceased to use the term "suffering"...


Phil Lawler wrestles with a mysteriously popular desperate lie from Catholic torture defenders...
Mark Shea
When the Church is clearly teaching something that people Catholics desperately wish to avoid, the general method for ignoring bloody obvious Church teaching is to find a theologian somewhere who will tell them what their itching ears want to hear, and then raise him to the status of the Magisterium, despite the fact that he literally stands in complete isolation from the rest of the Church's witness...


On the feast of the Holy Family, Pope Francis gives a shout-out to big families...
John Allen
On the feast of the Holy Family, and looking ahead to a 2015 in which concern for the family will once again be at the top of his personal to-do list, Pope Francis on Sunday urged politicians to make support for large families a priority. "In a world often marked by egoism, a large family is a school of solidarity and of mission that's of benefit to the entire society...


Beijing to publish list of "legal" religious venues to "eradicate" illegal religious activities...


Dave Barry's Year in Review 2014...


A peek inside the Vatican Library, tonight on 60 Minutes...
Kathy Schiffer
Tonight on CBS, viewers will be treated to a special hour of “60 Minutes Presents: Inside the Vatican.” Scott Pelley will profile Pope Francis, who is surprising the world by spurning tradition; and Morley Safer will lead viewers on a tour of the Vatican Library. The program will air at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time and Pacific Time...


Celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas this year...
Fr. C. John McCloskey
One of the delights of studying for the priesthood in Rome (many decades ago now) was the opportunity to experience the reality of the complete Christmas season: one that did not begin with a mass-market assault on Thanksgiving evening and build to a consuming crescendo on Christmas Day, but instead began with Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and continued for eleven days after December 25...


Never mind the headlines. We've never lived in such peaceful times (unless you're unborn)...


A brilliant collection of logical fallacy posters...


Quick Lessons from the Catechism: The Family in God’s Plan...
Tom Perna
Today in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, which is the Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity of the Lord, we commemorate the feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. It's today that we try to understand with our finite minds the infinite and unconditional love and sacrifice that existed between Jesus Christ and his parents...


The Top 5 over-covered Vatican stories of 2015...


A homily for the Feast of the Holy Family...


During this Octave of Christmas, unwrap a bit of silence...
Elizabeth Scalia
The silence of which we sing so wistfully at Midnight Mass, is at an all-time premium at Christmas; it is so difficult to find a silent night, let alone sit within one and become immersed in it, that the possibility of a seasonal soothing of the heart—a quieting of the grief of the world—seems the stuff of illusion and myth...


"The Land of Jesus": A photojournalist visits persecuted Christians throughout the Middle East...


Let us make this Christmas season a renewal of the deepest revolution the cosmos will ever know...
R. Jared Staudt
Christmas can seem so quaint: bells, tinsel, fake snow, not to mention goofy elves and other unmentionable accretions. We can lose sight of the cosmic breaking forth of God into the world. Christmas is not once and done. It has unalterably and fundamentally changed the world and our lives. Christmas shows us that God is breaking down cosmic barriers...


Is there anyone you know who might have been forgotten this Christmas?


Pope's Angelus: Ask St. Stephen for the gift of Christian coherence...

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President of Argentina adopts Jewish godson to 'stop him turning into a werewolf'...


The possibility of complex life in the universe is astronomically small...
Msgr. Charles Pope
We have discussed on the blog before how the mere statistical presumption that since there are so many stars, there are billions of other earth-like planets in the universe which likely support life similar to ours may be a flawed notion. Why? Because it is not just one or two things that make earth what...


A must today as ever: Talking about God in light of Pope Francis’ missionary push...
Andrea Gagliarducci
On February 26, 2013, two days before the end of Benedict XVI's pontificate, the Czech priest Tomas Halik launched in Rome the Italian edition of one of his most important books, "To the far ones nearby." And on March 13, 2014, while Jorge Mario Bergolio was on his first year as a Pope, the same Halik won the almost 2 million dollars of the Templeton Prize that is awarded to "those who have contribute to elevate the world's spiritual profile...


"The Second Annunciation": The Gospel Reading for the Feast of the Holy Family...
Michael Barber
The precise language of Mary and Joseph "presenting" the child Jesus in the temple is significant. On one level it recalls figures such as Samuel, who in the Old Testament were dedicated to God from their youth by their parents. However, there seems to be more than just a "dedication" going on here. The word translated...


For devotees of stained-glass windows, these may be the dark ages...


If you're Catholic, Christmas isn't a day. It's a season...
Rebecca Hamilton
Catholics don’t regard Christmas as one, big rousing day of overeating and gift giving. We see it as a joyful season of the Church. It lasts right up until we celebrate the visit the Wise Men paid to the baby Jesus. That kind of season thinking is hard for Americans, tied as we are to jobs and paychecks. We feel lucky if we can get off work long enough to celebrate that one big day...


The day the Pintupi Nine entered the modern world...


16 tips on how to make a good confession, and how to avoid the derp face...


Why can't non-Catholics receive Holy Communion?
Jenny Uebbing
The Church does not owe me anything. Jesus didn't die for my sins in order that I may vaguely acknowledge Him in some kind of moral therapeutic deistic fashion. So what if I have to stand in a drafty gym for 90 minutes on Christmas Eve, so that the visitors who have swollen our attendance by 400% can have a seat for their biannual pilgrimage -- isn't it worth it...


It's Christmas for several more days. Time to watch Christmas movies!...
Steven Greydanus
In the malls, Christmas is over, and the post-Christmas sales are underway. At the same time, for many Christians who have sought to resist market-driven "Christmas creep" and celebrate the weeks prior to Christmas as the vigil of Advent, the Christmas season has only just begun. The Christmas season unfolds in stages...


Pope's Sunday Angelus: "The Holy Family is holy because it is centered on Jesus"...


Vatican frees bare-breasted protester who attacked Nativity scene; forbids her ever to return...


This is why Christmas should frighten humans, and by that fright bestow ineffable gladness...


How a Porsche 911 engine is made...


Did Pope Francis really give his own Curia a "blistering attack" for Christmas?
Dawn Eden
There is no denying that Francis's address points to many areas where he believes members of the Curia need to shape up. It is honest to call it a critique, and it is severe at times. But the pope makes it clear he is also calling himself and all Catholics to likewise examine themselves, with the express purpose of preparing for sacramental confession...


Things would be very different if guys ran Christmas...


Urbi et Orbi: For a hurting world, may the Lord open hearts to trust...


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