MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-II Reel Rating: (4 out of 5 reels) The Force Awakens may be the most anticipated film of the Millennial generation as proven by the insane number of internet plot […]
A month has already gone by since Pope Francis set foot on Kenya soil, on his first apostolic visit to the African continent, a visit which also took him to Uganda and the Central African […]
(Kirche in Not) On December 26, the feast of the first Christian martyr, Saint Stephen, the Catholic Church in Germany observed a “Day of Prayer for Persecuted and Oppressed Christians”. On this occasion Aid to […]
Last month, the See of Lisbon reached the halfway point of its two-year-long Synod on a theme taken from Pope Francis’ Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium. Centuries ago, ships departed from that port city in […]
Readings: • Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 or 1 Sm 1:20-22, 24-28 • Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 or Ps 84:2-3, 5-6, 9-10 • Col 3:12-21 or 1 Jn 3:1-2, 21-24 • Lk 2:41-52 Being lost isn’t always […]
Christmas is a reminder that we live in a certain sort of war zone. And the suffering of those who live in war zones with bombings, physical violence, and killing is a reminder that the […]
“Actually,” you say, after reading the above title, “I never thought of celebrating Christmas as an act of defiance.” But I suggest that perhaps you should. “Why?” you ask. Why what? “Why is celebrating Christmas […]
Biblical scholars generally agree that Luke’s Gospel was written at least a generation later than Paul’s first letter to the Christians at Corinth. Yet whatever the dating, and irrespective of scholarly disputes about whether “Luke,” […]
Like many of the faithful who live in the Western hemisphere, my imagination has often been drawn far to the east, where our Lord lived, died, and rose again. This is especially true around Christmas, […]
The readings for the third Sunday of Advent put me in mind of one of the most significant themes in Catholic theology, namely, the play between nature and grace. St. Luke tells us that people […]
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