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How Catholics Are Giving Thanks this Thanksgiving

By |November 27th, 2020|Categories: Local News, Mobile App, Mobile Blog|

With lockdowns and all kinds of restrictions all across the state of California, Catholics in the El Centro and Brawley area are finding ways to creatively bring family together and keep the faith for Thanksgiving.

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Exaggerations and Eucharistic Miracles

By |December 23rd, 2024|Categories: Crisis Magazine|

Two new forensic science papers raise concerns about Eucharistic miracle investigations. The main author, Dr. Kelly Kearse, is a faithful Catholic, Eucharistic minister for over 20 years, and science teacher at Knoxville Catholic High School in Tennessee. Kearse is also an immunologist who trained at Johns Hopkins, worked as a

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St. Thorlak of Iceland

By |December 22nd, 2024|Categories: Catholic News Agency, Mobile App|

The Scandinavian island nation of Iceland celebrates its national patron, St. Thorlak Thorhallsson, on Dec. 23. Although Iceland's national assembly declared him a saint in 1198, only five years after his death, this “unofficial” canonization did not become an official part of the Church's liturgical calendar until Pope John Paul

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In Christmas message, Pope Francis criticizes gossip among Vatican staff

By |December 22nd, 2024|Categories: The Catholic Thing|

Pope Francis has told Vatican bureaucrats to stop speaking ill of one another, as he once again used his annual Christmas greetings to admonish backstabbing and gossiping among his closest collaborators. A wheezing and congested-sounding Francis, who just turned 88, urged the prelates to speak well of one another and

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What we know about the deadly Christmas market attack in Germany

By |December 22nd, 2024|Categories: The Catholic Thing|

Four women and a 9-year-old boy were killed and 200 people were injured when a Saudi doctor drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the German city of Magdeburg – an attack that has left Germans mourning the victims and with a shaken sense of security. Prosecutors

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The official and unofficial duties of Ambassador to the Holy See

By |December 22nd, 2024|Categories: The Catholic Thing|

President Trump has chosen Brian Burch, the head and co-founder of CatholicVote, to be U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican. And it is upsetting all the right people. And what most upsets Burch’s critics is how effective he—and CatholicVote—were in helping to elect Donald Trump. And – adding insult to injury

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