December 23, 2024

People lay candles and tributes Dec. 21, 2024, at the site where a car drove into a crowd at a Magdeburg Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.

Pope, bishops, hundreds of faithful pray for victims of shocking Christmas market attack

December 23, 2024
Several hundred people gathered at Magdeburg Cathedral in the evening of Dec. 21 for an ecumenical prayer service to remember the victims of the Dec. 20 Christmas market attack in the central German city, which killed five, including a 9-year-old ...
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Feeling Overwhelmed?

December 23, 2024
Feeling overwhelmed and wanting to escape doesn’t mean we are quitters. It just means we are human—and in pretty good company.
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Advent with the Saints: King David

December 23, 2024
I must confess in my years of studying the Bible, I have not been a big fan of King David.
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The Inbreaking of the Word: Week 4 of Advent

December 23, 2024
From Father Jim: "While we celebrate the birth of Christ as this great memorial, as this great celebration, as this great solemnity. We are a people with feet in two worlds, the world to come and the world that is ...
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