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Month: December 2018

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Should we do everything we can do?

December 11, 2018 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

A largely unheralded event took place in Albuquerque in mid-November. It had nothing to do with the city’s famed petroglyph tours or hot air balloon fiesta. Rather, it was an international conference which gathered deans […]

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Surprise! Pope makes several impromptu visits

December 11, 2018 Caroline

ROME—Pope Francis made surprise visits Dec. 7 and 8 to people receiving medical care far from their homes, to a dozen intellectually challenged young people and to the staff of a major Rome newspaper. The […]

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Marking feast day, pope asks Mary’s care of refugee families

December 10, 2018 Caroline

ROME—In the heart of Rome, near streets of fancy shops already blinged out for Christmas shopping, Pope Francis prayed for Romans struggling to survive and for families in the city and around the world who […]

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Discalced Carmelites form group on Pawleys Island

December 10, 2018 Christina Lee Knauss | The Catholic Miscellany

PAWLEYS ISLAND—Lay people along the Grand Strand now have the chance to connect with an ancient spiritual tradition founded more than 800 years ago — the Carmelites.  A new discalced Carmelite group, the Coastal Community […]

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As U.N. declaration hits 70, push to include ‘new’ rights called troubling

December 9, 2018 Caroline

UNITED NATIONS—Seventy years after its adoption, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was lauded Dec. 4 as a seminal, yet imperfect achievement of the nascent United Nations. Speakers at a panel honored the foresight of […]

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By early 2019, diocese will release names of all credibly accused priests

December 8, 2018 Christina Lee Knauss | The Catholic Miscellany

CHARLESTON—Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone has announced that the Diocese of Charleston will release the names of priests who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse of minors in the diocese dating back to 1950.  The […]

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Feast of Immaculate Conception does not get weekend dispensation

December 7, 2018 Caroline

WASHINGTON—Just last year, Catholics were required to attend separate Masses two days in a row for the Sunday obligation and Monday’s Christmas Mass. Now, they have a similar opportunity this year with the feast of […]

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Christmas spirit in the air as Vatican unveils Nativity scene, tree

December 7, 2018 Caroline

VATICAN CITY—The annual unveiling of the Vatican’s Christmas tree and Nativity scene brought some much-needed warmth to people’s hearts as winter approached. Hundreds of people in St. Peter’s Square Dec. 7 applauded as white curtains […]

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Loving our neighbor means getting attached

December 7, 2018 Alison Blanchet | The Catholic Miscellany

A few words from a judge ended our time with the toddler yesterday afternoon. The little boy that had been my shopping buddy, who I had packed lunch notes for and who I had prayed with […]

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Catholic groups see major harm for immigrants in changing public benefits

December 7, 2018 Caroline

WASHINGTON—A proposal by the Trump administration to deny green cards to legal immigrants using public assistance “will dramatically change the process of legal migration and make it increasingly difficult for low-income and working-class individuals to […]

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