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O Emmanuel
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Month: December 2012
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O Rex Gentium
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News
Six Days, Eight Funerals, Countless Tears
During the frenzied response to the devastating Newtown, Conn., school shooting last week, a policeman picked up one of the first-graders who had been shot. She was still alive, but not for long. The six-year-old […]
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O Oriens
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Pope’s year-end address to curia: “Whoever defends God is defending man.”
If you’ve not read the entire address, you’ll want to. Below is the section about family, marriage, and gender, a passage causing some hand-wringing among those who apparently haven’t figured out that (gasp!) the Pope […]
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Pope’s childhood Christmas letter to Baby Jesus published
From the Catholic News Agency comes this charming report: a Christmas letter written by seven-year-old Joseph Ratzinger to Baby Jesus is on display this Advent in the Bavarian town of Marktl am Inn, where he […]
Film & Music
The Hobbit: A Film of Friendship, Faith, and the Good Fight
Director Peter Jackson does not disappoint. Like the great Lord of the Rings films, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is filled with beautiful scenery, epic battle sequences, humor, good versus evil, and many lessons on […]
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The End of the World As We Know It?
Note: The following was originally written for Our Sunday Visitor in late 2009, in part because of the movie, “2012”, released at that time. I am posting it here in light of the interest about […]
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O Clavis David!
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Pope: “The birth of Christ challenges us to reassess…our very way of life.”
From the Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, 20 December 2012 (VIS) – The “Financial Times” daily newspaper has today published an article by Benedict XVI entitled “A time for Christians to engage with the world”. […]