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Vatican newspaper highlights growing wealth inequality (CWN)
In a front-page article in its December 17 edition, the Vatican newspaper highlighted rising global inequality in wealth.
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Vatican dicastery moves candidates toward beatification (Vatican Press Office)
On December 18, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints issued a series of decreed, moving fifteen candidates forward on the bath to beatification. The decrees: certified a miracle …
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Thursday of the Third Week of Advent
This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about.When his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph,but before they lived together,she was found with child through the Holy Spirit.Joseph her …
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St. Thomas Aquinas—The Blessed Virgin, by becoming the Mother of God, …
The Blessed Virgin, by becoming the Mother of God, received a kind of infinite dignity because God is infinite; this dignity therefore is such a reality that a better is …
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Dec. 18 December 18, O Lord and Ruler (O Adonai), Weekday
Today is the Second of the O Antiphons, O Adonai (O Almighty God/O Lord and Ruler). As Moses approached the burning bush, so we approach the divine Savior in the …
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Dec. 18 December 18, O Lord and Ruler (O Adonai), Weekday
Today is the Second of the O Antiphons, O Adonai (O Almighty God/O Lord and Ruler). As Moses approached the burning bush, so we approach the divine Savior in the …
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Christian prelates ask Israel to allow treatment for Gaza children (Patriarchate of Jerusalem )
The Christian leaders of Jerusalem have issued a petition to Israeli authorities, asking them to allow children in Gaza who are suffering from leukemia to be transferred to a hospital …
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Confirmed: Bishop Hicks to head New York archdiocese (Vatican News)
Confirming widespread reports, Pope Leo XIV has named Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet, Illinois, to succeed Cardinal Timothy Dolan as Archbishop of New York. In a Vatican News interview, Bishop …
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New York Governor Hochul will sign assisted-suicide legislation (CNA)
New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul has announced that she will sign into law a bill making assisted suicide legal. The Catholic bishops of New York quickly responded with a statement …
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Filipino rebels announce Christmas truce (Fides)
The New People’s Army (NPA), a Communist rebel group in the Philippines, has announced a two-day truce for Christmas, to be observed December 25 and 26, and followed by a …