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What happened to St. Nicholas?
To celebrate the patron saint of children, it is the custom in many countries to give a small gift to children on Dec. 6, St. Nicholas’ Day, making the feast a sweet prelude to Christmas. For nearly 1700 years, St. Nicholas has been one of the most popular saints of the Church — in the East and the West. The number of churches, chapels, religious institutions and altars dedicated to him throughout...
The opponents of the Mississippi abortion law make clear that they just want a right to a dead baby…
The merciful news is, America isn’t there. Roe’s days may be numbered because of the clarity of the Dobbs oral arguments. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I t may just be morning in America — that was the overwhelming feeling as I stood outside the Supreme Court with the sun warming us on as oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Mississippi abortion case, were to be heard. For t...
19 little-remembered facts about St. Nicholas…
Father Joseph Marquis has portrayed St. Nicholas (and Santa) for over 45 years and founded the St. Nicholas Institute. Father Marquis is a wealth of facts, from familiar to forgotten — like these 19 facts that can help us celebrate St. Nicholas better and appreciate his makeover into Santa. 1. The saint’s name Nicholas is of Greek origin and means “victor of people.” 2. Nicholas was born in Patara...
Pope on resignation of French archbishop: What did he do that was so bad?
Listen to this story: ON BOARD THE PAPAL PLANE – Pope Francis on his way back to Rome on Monday criticized the rise of western populism, advocated on behalf of migrants, and stressed the need to continue working for unity with the Orthodox. Speaking to journalists on board his flight from Athens to Rome at the end of a Dec. 2-6 visit to Cyprus and Greece, the pope also touched on the fall fr...
Pope Francis Says He Accepted Paris Archbishop’s Resignation ‘on the Altar of Hypocrisy’…
Answering questions aboard his return flight from Athens, Greece, to Rome on Dec. 6, the Pope said that the archbishop of Paris stepped down because he had ‘lost his reputation so publicly.’ On the papal plane on Monday, Pope Francis said that he accepted the resignation of Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris “not on the altar of truth, but on the altar of hypocrisy.” Answering questions aboard his...
Second Sunday of Advent: I wanna be ready to put on a long white robe…..
But who may abide the day of his coming and who shall stand when he appeareth? This is the cry that goes up from the final pages of the Old Testament (Mal 3:2). The Lord himself gives the answer: See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; les...
The Lord of the Rings’ Gollum changed film history — all thanks to Andy Serkis and 18 animators…
Motion capture is the biggest technological advance in the field of screen acting since The Jazz Singer ushered in the era of synchronized sound in 1927, but it’s unclear where the field would be without the performance of Andy Serkis as Gollum in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and its follow-up, The Return of the King. Jackson was not the first to use motion capture in a fe...
Greek Orthodox Priest Shouts ‘Pope, You Are a Heretic’ at Francis in Athens…
ATHENS, Dec 4 (Reuters) – An elderly Greek Orthodox priest shouted “Pope, you are a heretic” as Pope Francis was entering the Orthodox Archbishopric in Athens on Saturday and was taken away by police, a reminder of the lingering distrust between the two divided churches. Video showed the man, who was dressed in black robes and black hat and had a long white beard, shouting the wo...
“I’m no longer an atheist” — Social media personality Kaitlin Bennett announces conversion to Catholic faith, and explains what finally brought her home…
Welcome home, Kaitlin Bennett! 🙌 Conservative activist and social media personality Kaitlin Bennett announced on Dec. 2 that she left atheism to join the Catholic Church. She is currently in RCIA. In a 13-minute YouTube video, the 26-year-old conservative activist reveals her incredible conversion story. Wearing a Miraculous Medal and standing next to a statue of Our Lady, she explains how...
Why the Supreme Court’s ‘Dobbs v. Jackson’ oral arguments give us cause for hope…
Pro-life activists and scholars — with nearly 50 years of experience reaching, striving, yearning for the best possible arguments to undercut the patently unconstitutional “law” declaring abortion a constitutional right — could find much to celebrate, much to mourn in the oral arguments heard today at the U.S. Supreme Court about whether to overrule Roe v. Wade and the case that largely affirmed i...
The shallowing of Notre-Dame de Paris…
By Dr. Jeff Mirus ( bio – articles – email ) | Dec 02, 2021 The interior makeover of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris presents us with some very disturbing questions. Everybody will remember the fire in April of 2019 which severely damaged one of the best-known churches in Christendom, and the outpouring of gifts from rich and famous people around the world to aid in its restoratio...
Bad atheists acting like atheists anger another atheist…
“What a grift that was!” says atheist philosopher Phil Torres, angry at the once famous “New Atheists.” People like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Steven Pinker had given him “immense hope” and now they’ve upset him. He writes like a boy hurt to find his heroes aren’t heroic. Their movement “appeared to offer moral clarity, it emphasized intellectual honesty and it embraced scientific truths abo...
