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A Little Girl’s Christmas Gift to Jesus
Baby Jesus COMMENTARY: My favorite part of the day was when I would lie beneath the tree, gazing upwards at the bubble lights. I cupped the Baby Jesus from the …
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Relationships Strengthen Families, Such as Holy Family, and Church
(See the readings for the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph) The commercial came on the television. It showed short video clips of a man and …
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CNA explains: How does ‘Mass dispensation’ work, and when is it used?
null / Credit: FotoDax/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 26, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Amid heavy immigration enforcement by the Trump administration, several bishops in the U.S. have recently issued broad …
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18th-century church in Edinburgh desecrated on Christmas Eve (The Times )
An 18th-century church in Edinburgh, Scotland, was desecrated on Christmas Eve, during the time when the church was open for prayer between the Christmas Eve Vigil Mass and Midnight Mass. …
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El Paso bishop, in Christmas interview, says President Trump’s immigration policies are ‘great source of sadness’ (NPR)
In a Christmas Day interview, Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, told NPR that the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies are “a great source of sadness for me because …
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Martyrdom and celebration: The beautiful tension of the Christmas Octave
Detail from “The Stoning of St Stephen” (1603-04) by Annibale Carracci. (Image: WikiArt) We keep things in discreet categories in our culture. Religion too often remains within the church’s walls, …
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Christmas With St. Francis
On leaving Rome in 1223, St. Francis of Assisi made for the Rieti Valley and back to the hermitage of Fonte Columbo, where he had written his rule. It was …
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Nigerian priest shot on Christmas Eve (Vanguard)
Father Raymond Njoku, an assistant priest at a parish in Ogbaku in Nigeria’s Imo State, was shot as he drove back to his parish residence. “His vehicle was riddled with …
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Christ comes to transform us, Ukrainian Catholic leader says in Christmas message (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church said in his Christmas message that “Christ comes to people in human flesh to transform them, to open up new perspectives for …
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Nuncio condemns arson attack on West Bank parish (Vatican News)
Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana, apostolic nuncio to Israel and apostolic delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine, condemned an arson attack on the parish in the West Bank city of Jenin. Vatican …