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Morning Briefing
… Dennis Coday … When should you take your Christmas Tree down? … Epiphany eve, also known as Twelfth Night. … Two stories that ask what we will do …
Pope: Festivities become a facade when Christ is left out of Christmas
… pilgrims gathered in the Vatican's Paul VI audience hall, which was decorated with a Christmas tree and a life-size Nativity scene. The creche, the liturgies and the seasonal songs all help …
Fourth Sunday of Advent
… that will conflict with the Advent liturgy. You could bring in major elements like Christmas trees (unlit) and the manger (without figures), signaling the nearness of the feast but still …
Conservative donors aim to shape Catholic narrative for the wider culture
… are deeply engaged in advancing a conservative political/religious agenda. A diagram, family-tree style, of the funders, their overlapping board memberships and the organizations that …
Why Christians should hate Christmas
… the happiness brought to some of our children this time of year. I would like Christmas trees and the decorations if they all went up a few days before Christmas and if they were truly …
The important thing is to keep planting and not give up
… had gone home to bed and my husband Jerry and I sat by the twinkle lights on the Christmas tree, I said, "Just think, something magical is happening right now, this very minute and we …
Sunday has lost its sense as day of rest, renewal in Christ, pope says
… talks on the Mass in the Vatican's Paul VI hall, which was decorated with a large Christmas tree and a life-sized Nativity scene. A number of people in the audience hall handed the pope -- …
Washington Archdiocese considers next step in lawsuit over transit ad
… aisles is verboten," the statement said. "In a society concerned more with what's under the tree and where the birth of Jesus is treated as an elusive element to the season, we simply want …
Georgetown denies unionizing effort of graduate student group
… aren't in stocks being pelted with fruit, as the Syracuse coach was in effigy tied to a tree trunk, but they feel disrespected by an institution that has baffled them with its recent …
In Puerto Rico, much work to do and much suffering remains, says cardinal
… lay coordinator who takes care of this mission. He and a band of volunteers cut down all the trees and debris that buffeted this small, inner-city chapel, which was built with funds from Catholic Extension. They have yet to remove the giant palm tree that fell on the adjacent parish hall, also built with Extension funds. The tree crushed the side of the building, destroying the place they stored food and clothing for the …