Monday, December 21, 2015

Pope's Christmas message to Vatican Curia: "We are prophets of a future that does not belong to us."

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Vatican City, 21 December 2015 (VIS) – Missionary and pastoral spirit, idoneity and sagacity, spirituality and humanity, example and fidelit...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Pius IX on proclaiming the dogma of the Immaculate Conception: "the Vicar of God had need of a special grace or else he would have died of love through his knowledge and the tremendous flood of exalted feeling."

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From Chapter X​ of Fr Francis Thornton's Cross Upon Cross: The Life of Pope Pius IX: ​"...Both Scripture and history threw the li...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

On the 50th anniversary of "A Charlie Brown Christmas": the Real story of Christmas and the Gospel according to Luke

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This year marks the 50 th  anniversary of  A Charlie Brown Christmas .  With its cool jazz music, real kids’ voices, no laugh track, wry hu...
Monday, November 30, 2015

Christmas Novena begins today: text of prayer recited daily 15 times until Christmas

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"Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in p...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Full text of the Pope's address to the joint session of Congress

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Mr. Vice-President, Mr. Speaker, Honorable Members of Congress, Dear Friends, I am most grateful for your invitation to address this Jo...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Fr. George W. Rutler on the forgotten Chrsitian refugees of the Middle East: "Europe, our own administration refusing to acknowledge that their Christian faith is the essential fact in the calculus of their suffering."

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FROM THE PASTOR   September 20, 2015 by Fr. George W. Rutler A parish is particularly privileged when the Pope comes not only to its c...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Pope's Letter on the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy

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Pope's letter on the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy Vatican City, 1 September 2015 (VIS) – The Holy Father has sent a letter to Archbis...