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Pope offers usual Christmas message of hope while lamenting ‘the little Jesuses of today’ lost to war, migration and abortion
at the end of a year marked by the outbreak of fresh wars and by various personal health crises, pope francis at christmas offered a message...
Elise Ann Allen
Mongolia’s tiny Catholic community just got a Christmas Eve boost
ulaanbaatar – one of the world’s smallest catholic flocks is growing in number, after the mongolian church added three native women to its r...
Elise Allen
Bethlehem Dispatch: A muted Christmas 'bereft its usual festive splendour'
bethlehem's main square is bereft its usual festive splendour and twinkling red, green and white lights. usually bustling this time of year ...
MariamElsayehIbrahim
Zelensky’s move against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is a step too far
they say that desperate times call for desperate measures, and right now the situation in ukraine is getting increasingly desperate for pres...
Robert Amsterdam
Staying connected to the Christian message of 'A Christmas Carol'
on this day 180 years ago charles dickens gave his first public reading of a christmas carol . just two days after christmas, around 2...
Laura Perrins
'On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...St John, Apostle of the Word Made Flesh
o god, who through the blessed apostle john have unlocked for us the secrets of your word, grant, we pray, that we may grasp with proper und...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
Light in the darkness: war in the Holy Land brings the Incarnation into clearer focus
an apocryphal story, one of my favourites, has been doing the rounds in diplomatic circles for decades. late one advent in the middle of the...
Serenhedd James
'On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me'...Good King Wenceslas, on the Feast of Stephen
try teaching the words of good king wenceslas to a ten-year-old ukrainian who’s still finding her way in english. i’d thought it would be ea...
Noonie Minogue
The Christmas School of Joy, with the Archbishop of Southwark
once again at christmas our blessed lady and st joseph invite us to meet their child: god’s son, the infant saviour and prince of peace. but...
Archbishop John Wilson
French politics is suffocating the Spirit of Christmas
emmanuel macron found himself in a spot of bother earlier in december when he invited france’s chief rabbi to the elysee palace to light the...
Gavin Mortimer
Don’t give up on the Church – and certainly not because of Fiducia Supplicans
christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat and a lot of catholics are arguing after the release of fiducia supplicans . welcome to ...
Katherine Bennett
Sharing God’s nature: the powerful pro-life message of the Eucharist
bishop john sherrington shares with anita boniface the powerful pro-life message of the eucharist . in advent and christmas, the church’s li...
Anita Boniface
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church announces Fiducia Supplicans ‘has no legal force’ for its followers
rome – amid myriad reactions unleashed by fiducia supplicans , a new vatican document advising on non-liturgical blessings of same-sex...
Crux Staff
'The Twelve Days of Christmas' and the 'cheerful nonsense' of English Christmas Carols
on the first day of christmas, my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree. on the second day of christmas, m...
Andrew Gant
Turkey votes for Christmas
…or at least its president seems to, explains lucien de guise . there was a glimmer of hope in the miasma of the middle east after the hamas...
Lucien de Guise
The Logos was made flesh and dwelt among us
the paradox of christianity is beyond the pagan teachings of heraclitus . at the heart of the christmas celebration is the fact that the wor...
Fr Robert Verrill OP
At a time when we should be celebrating life, others are lobbying for death
pope st john paul ii once remarked that in our celebration of the birth of jesus christ we bear witness that every human is “somebody unique...
Philip Campbell
US priesthood riven by ‘generational mistrust’ as conservative shift leaves younger priests ‘suspicious' of Church hierarchy
new york, crux – when asked to sum up the state of the american priesthood, catholic university of america sociologist brandon vaidyanathan ...
John Lavenburg
New iconography course at Ealing Abbey aims to 'galvanise' Catholic art scene in UK
the declaration by the fathers of the second council of nicaea in ad 787 on the value of producing sacred images and art works is about to g...
James Jeffrey
The virgin birth of Christ is not necessary, but it is appropriate
a virgin did conceive . i will not be the first person to tell you this, but the prophet isaiah did not unequivocally predict the birth...
Fr Richard Ounsworth OP
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