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Muslim youth to help guard Indonesian churches at Christmas
more than 90,000 police and soldiers and a moderate muslim youth group will help guard nearly 50,000 churches across indonesia, including so...
Catholic News Service
Morning Catholic must-reads: 19/12/18
cardinal luis antonio tagle has implicitly criticised philippines president rodrigo duterte at the start of a christmas novena. the moscow p...
Luke Coppen
Christmas Eve marks 200th anniversary of beloved carol 'Silent Night'
exactly 200 years ago this christmas eve -- december 24, 1818 -- in a little church in what is now austria, the world heard for the first ti...
Richard Szczepanowski
Jesuits' Maryland province releases lists of clergy with credible claims
the maryland province of the society of jesus has released the names of jesuits who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse of minors sin...
Catholic News Service
Vatican urges bishops to meet abuse victims ahead of February summit
organizers of the vatican’s february meeting on sexual abuse have sent a letter to the participating bishops asking them to meet with abuse ...
Hannah Brockhaus/CNA
Pope names Italian journalists to key posts in Vatican communications
pope francis has made new appointments to the dicastery for communication, naming andrea tornielli, an italian journalist, as its "editorial...
Carol Glatz
Does the Christmas classic ‘Baby, it’s Cold Outside’ really promote date rape?
a controversy has erupted on american airwaves: should frank loesser’s christmas classic, baby, it’s cold outside, be banned by radio statio...
Jeff Cimmino
Dear Fr Rutler: what should I do when my family trash-talk the Pope?
dear father rutler, pope francis isn’t my favourite vicar of christ of the last couple of millennia, but i don’t like the way some of my fri...
Fr George Rutler
How America helped revive the Boar's Head feast
we americans have a way of taking european customs and cultural items, reinventing them to our liking, and as often as not sending them back...
Charles Coulombe
The double message of Christmas
i’ve never been happy with some of my activist friends who send out christmas cards with messages like: “may the peace of christ disturb you...
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Heretic of the week
"mother” ann lee (1736-1784) was born to a family of poor english quakers in manchester. baptised at age six in what is now the anglican man...
Charles Coulombe
Prize crossword 0573
cryptic across 5 place in colorado for vicar edward to retreat (6) 7 was blues’ chairman more roguish? (6) 9 he who helped kill sennacherib ...
Alun Evans
Mass readings
ordinary form divine office week iv sunday, december 23 : the fourth sunday of advent mi 5:1-4a; ps 80; heb 10:5-10; lk 1:39-45 monday, dece...
The Catholic Herald
How to … Spend Boxing Day
the correct term, of course, is st stephen’s day: we mark the first martyr of the early church, a reminder that the infant jesus, in his inf...
The Catholic Herald
Coping with the loss of the childhood innocence of Christmas
christmas is a time when even the secular world rediscovers the importance of ritual. every family has special christmas customs. they help ...
Fr Dominic Allain
Omnium Gatherum
the image’s deceptive simplicity is of an order accomplished only by a master. brown ink pen strokes. brown wash. traces of black lead. the ...
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
The Word this week
the christmas story, as related in the gospels, furnishes the background for memories that reach back to childhood. few of us, either as chi...
Bishop David McGough
Entertainment right down to the footnotes - the best books of 2018
i haven’t been able to shake patricia byrne’s the preacher and the prelate (merrion press, 258pp, £13.99/$24.99) from my mind since reading ...
Michael Duggan
Nine books that will lift your spirits
it is always a fascinating exercise to look back over the year and try to select the most memorable books reviewed. why this book and not th...
Francis Phillips
2018 was a good year to be a book reviewer. Here's why
not all book reviewers are as despondent and sore oppressed as the one depicted by orwell in a bleak essay. some of us, after years in the g...
Allan Massie
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