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Month: December 2018

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Pope’s 2019 calendar: Abuse summit, trips, a focus on mission are all on agenda

December 31, 2018 Caroline

VATICAN CITY—Many people have big expectations that Pope Francis will take major steps in 2019 to address the clerical sexual abuse crisis. He has called the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences and the heads […]

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Catholic-themed socks offer practical, spiritual support

December 30, 2018 Caroline

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Some people wear their faith on their sleeve, others on their feet, which is hardly sacrilegious. It is in fact, Sock Religious. Catholic socks are a rarity, but images like Mary, Pope Francis, […]

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NIH head’s defense of fetal tissue research ‘deeply disturbing’

December 29, 2018 Caroline

WASHINGTON—An official at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said recent comments made by Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, in defending human fetal tissue research were “deeply disturbing.” “Research using […]

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Bishops hope renewed spirit of holiness emerges from January retreat

December 28, 2018 Caroline

WASHINGTON—Several bishops who are planning to join a weeklong U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops retreat to start the New Year are trusting they’ll return to their dioceses with a renewed sense of what it means […]

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Nursing group forms a new chapter in SC

December 27, 2018 Christina Lee Knauss | The Catholic Miscellany

COLUMBIA—Catholic nurses can now connect with each other, share their faith and work together to help the community thanks to a new organization in the Diocese of Charleston.  Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone granted permission for […]

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Lumen Christi Award winner has spent life as a religious serving poor

December 26, 2018 Caroline

CHICAGO—Sister Marie-Paule Willem, a Franciscan Missionary of Mary, who has been serving the poor in the U.S. and around the world for more than 60 years, will receive the 2018-2019 Lumen Christi Award from Catholic […]

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Christmas Eve marks 200th anniversary of beloved carol ‘Silent Night’

December 24, 2018 Caroline

WASHINGTON—Exactly 200 years ago this Christmas Eve — Dec. 24, 1818 — in a little church in what is now Austria, the world heard for the first time a poem set to music that eventually […]

Columnists

Be still and open to God

December 23, 2018 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

This December marks the 200th anniversary of the debut of “Silent Night.” Most people have heard the story about the church organ that was not operational for a Christmas Eve service. Mice, rust, or something […]

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Bishop responds to concerns during town hall meetings

December 22, 2018 Christina Lee Knauss | The Catholic Miscellany

COLUMBIA —People in the pews around South Carolina are expressing their concern, their sadness and their anger about sexual abuse in the Church, and Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone and others from the Diocese of Charleston […]

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Woman hopes exhibit of her creches will help all focus on gifts of Jesus

December 21, 2018 Caroline

CONYERS, Ga.—Nativity scenes on display at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers feature a multitude of colors and sizes, reflect various cultures and are crafted from materials such as ceramics, shells, pewter, paper-mache, […]

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