Two years ago, about two weeks into Advent, I posed a question to my class of high school sophomores: What will you get Jesus for His birthday? We spend so much time thinking about what we will give our loved ones—we are intentional, searching for the thing that will demonstrate how well we know them…
It was a Friday night in the summer. The painters were not yet finished in the school. A drunk showed up at the door and I dispatched him. Then I got a phone call. Because the man calling was sobbing, it took me a while to understand what he was talking about. Someone had died…
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Bishop José Ignacio Munilla of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain. / Credit: Archdiocese of Valladolid ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 20, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). The bishop of Orihuela-Alicante in Spain, José Ignacio Munilla, is focusing on the implications of pastoral charity involved in blessing couples in irregular affective situations. The prelate shared his views on X, shortly…
A migrant carries a baby in the Darien Province in Panama on Sept. 22, 2023. More than 390,000 migrants have entered Panama through this jungle so far this year. / Credit: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 20, 2023 / 18:50 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has called for a “humanitarian response” to…
A liturgy at St. Mary’s Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church, Arakuzha, India. / Achayan via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Bangalore, India, Dec 20, 2023 / 17:50 pm (CNA). Tensions are rising within the Syro-Malabar Church in the Indian state of Kerala as the Vatican’s Dec. 25 deadline for priests to implement a “universal” liturgy or face…
null / Credit: lunamarina/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 20, 2023 / 18:10 pm (CNA). Catholic bishops around the world are deeply divided on a Vatican declaration that permits nonliturgical blessings of homosexual couples: some bishops are welcoming the news, some are approaching it with caution, while others are outright refusing to implement it. In some countries, including…
The Missionaries of Charity convent located on the compound of Holy Family Parish, the only Catholic church in Gaza, was damaged by rocket fire on Dec. 16, 2023. / Credit: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Dec 20, 2023 / 17:20 pm (CNA). On Sunday, Dec. 17, the third Sunday of Advent, mother and daughter Nahida…
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