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Israel-Hamas war casts pall over Christmas Eve vespers in Bethlehem

December 24, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa arrives in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve, 2023. / Credit: Marinella Bandini, Catholic News Agency

Bethlehem, Dec 24, 2023 / 13:04 pm (CNA).
On Sunday, December 24, Cardinal Pierbattista… […]

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Pope Francis: Do not confuse Christmas with consumerism

December 24, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

Pope Francis gives his Angelus address on Dec. 24, 2023. / Vatican Media

CNA Staff, Dec 24, 2023 / 11:40 am (CNA).
On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis urged Christians not to confuse Christmas with consumerism but to celebrate the birth of Christ by… […]

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Christmas video by Lansing Diocese highlights Eucharistic adoration, story of ‘Silent Night’

December 24, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

A scene from the "Silent Night" Christmas video from the Diocese of Lansing. / Credit: Matt Riedl/Diocese of Lansing

CNA Staff, Dec 24, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).
The Diocese of Lansing in Michigan has released a Christmas video featuring… […]

Essay

Christmas and the unparalleled joys of motherhood

December 23, 2023 Casey Chalk 10

Earlier this year, my wife attended a baby shower for a woman having her first child. My wife, a mother of five children, was a bit of an outlier in a crowd of female professionals, […]

The Dispatch

Fiducia supplicans appears to have failed spectacularly

December 23, 2023 Christopher R. Altieri 131

It isn’t every day that the top papal lieutenant goes on the record to discuss something about which he’d just said there would be no further clarification, but that’s what just happened in an interview […]

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Hail, Mary! Tabernacle of God and the Word!

December 23, 2023 Carl E. Olson 7

On the Readings for Sunday, December 24, 2017, the Fourth Sunday of Advent […]

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Catholics in the Holy Land gather at prayer vigil to prepare for Christmas

December 23, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

A moment at the vigil in preparation for Christmas, held on Dec. 22 at the Church of St Saviour in Jerusalem. / Credit: Marinella Bandini

Jerusalem, Dec 23, 2023 / 09:42 am (CNA).
Christians in Jerusalem began the weekend before Christmas with… […]

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Catholic Church reportedly closer to getting its first samurai saint

December 23, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

Cardinal Thomas Aquinas Manyo Maeda of Osaka, Japan / Credit: Photo by Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images

CNA Staff, Dec 23, 2023 / 05:55 am (CNA).
The Vatican is currently investigating miracles associated with the intercession of Blessed Justu… […]

The Dispatch

A miracle-working Saint Anthony and other Brazilian saints

December 23, 2023 Dawn Beutner 1

Even non-Catholics have heard of Saint Anthony, the miracle-working saint who can help find your lost car keys. Named Fernando Martins de Bulhões at birth, Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) was a Franciscan priest whose […]

Essay

A Grammar of Gratitude: Chesterton’s St. Francis of Assisi at 100

December 22, 2023 David Paul Deavel 1

As much as we owe modern Christmas traditions to German and English traditions, there is one to whom we owe special thanks. While the modern tradition of a Christmas crèche with figurines seems to have […]

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Full text: Pope Francis’ Urbi et Orbi Message

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Speaking to a crowd assembled in St. Peter’s Square on Christmas morning, Pope Francis delivered the traditional Christmas “Urbi et Orbi” (“To the City and the World”) message and blessing. Below, via Vatican Radio, is […]

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