It is well established that when it comes to God and the practice of faith, Democrats and Republicans are not similar. Not even close. And this has been well known for quite some time, according to the Pew Research Center. They reported on the…
Over the weekend I saw a link on Facebook to a blog entry that appeared, coincidentally, on my birthday. It was a reflection titled “My Other Daughter.” I’d been alerted about the contents but otherwise would not have known initially that this…
The heart of the Christmas season can be summed up in one term – love. The brightness of the season highlights how we love others, especially those closest to us. That closeness is often through family, marriage, friendship, and more. Love is in…
For two decades now I have written on a blog somewhere. I always write on Christmas day, and almost no one reads. Consumed with family and friends, presents and meals, and faith – Christmas is just not a day that most people read, and…
A perennial theme of modern holiday classics, from the ridiculous Jingle All the Way to the sublime A Charlie Brown Christmas, is the conspicuous absence of the Christmas spirit during Christmas season. In each case, the Christmas spirit is…
In a previously unpublished 2014 homily by Papa Ratzinger, the Pope Emeritus writes about the importance of the lamb in Scripture: “We find a first hint, a first prediction, in the story of Abraham: the sacrifice of Isaac (cf. Gen 22). God had…
Jonathan Luxmore, OSV News Tuesday, December 16, 2025 A Catholic 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner who was unexpectedly freed from jail in Belarus has paid tribute to supporters who helped secure his release, while warning that over a thousand…
By The Stream Published on December 11, 2025 If you struggle with applying scripture to your life, or knowing what your Bible study means for you today — this is the video for you. There’s one simple rule of thumb that Faith Womack unpacks in…
Editors, National Catholic Register Thursday, December 11, 2025 According to the recent presidential message celebrating the Virgin Mary’s own conception without any stain of original sin, “God became man when Mary gave birth to a son, Jesus,…
On Monday, the White House gave a strong presidential message recognizing the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a holy day in the Catholic liturgical calendar. The President’s message begins, “On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception,…
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