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December 15, 2016

Why Christmas should bother everybody

The distinctive mark of Jesus’ Lordship is love, compassion, forgiveness, and non-violence – but this is not the stuff of sentimentality and warm feelings. It is a provocation, a challenge, a call to conversion of the most radical kind.
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Five Things to Know – The first Christmas creche

Do you know how Christmas nativity scenes got their start? Check out these five interesting facts.
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Atlanta prelate joins Mid-Atlantic Congress 2017 lineup

Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will provide the opening keynote address at the fifth annual Mid-Atlantic Congress for pastoral leaders.
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Corruption is cancer to health industry, pope tells hospital staffers

Corrupt business practices that seek to profit from the sick and the dying are a cancer to hospitals, Pope Francis said.
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Father Alban Harmon, C.P., worked in tribunal office

Father Harmon was the defender of the bond in the marriage tribunal office from 2000 to 2011, when he retired.
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Allow God to save us

Christmas is not just about a moment when God entered human history, but about God sharing with us his own life.
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Justice Breyer calls death penalty arbitrary, urges review

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivered harsh criticism of the death penalty Dec. 12 in a dissent to the court’s decision not to hear a Florida inmate’s death penalty appeal.
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