
Octave of Christmas, Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God
As we embark on a New Year, may we entrust ourselves to Mary’s maternal care, asking for her intercession to lead us ever closer to her Divine Son. May her…
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As we embark on a New Year, may we entrust ourselves to Mary’s maternal care, asking for her intercession to lead us ever closer to her Divine Son. May her…
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A lesson I learned is that poetry, even as crude as mine, can be learned by anyone, particularly if one is as tongue-tied as me.
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Puerto Lopez is popular whale-watching destination in Ecuador.
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If 2025 had a defining theme, it was accountability. The public demanded it loudly yet it was offered unevenly by those in power.
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SOUTH TAPANULI, Indonesia (AFP) — At the Angkola Protestant Church, in the hard-hit South Tapanuli district, in Sumatra, dozens of worshippers sang hymns at a…
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So on this first morning after, the invitation is plain: not to prolong the party, but to convert its warmth into structure.
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Christmas is the celebration of Jesus Christ — the Incarnation of God with us.
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Joseph had to travel with his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem to comply with the Roman Emperor’s directive for all Roman subjects to register for the census in…
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We intrepid Filipinos smartly skirt the English language wars on the Christmas Day greeting by having the best of both worlds.
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The hope of Christmas is not that God will magically erase human sinfulness from on high, but that He equips and empowers humanity to confront it from within.
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Half a world away, people value children but not childhood, which says quite a lot about why our Christmas is so special.
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As the calendar turns, the challenge is not to leave Christmas behind with the decorations, but to carry its values forward.
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It is a joy-sapping reality that had never been felt before, as far as I know. It leaves us stunned, weighed down by a sense of betrayal so deep we can hardly…
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Personal safety and the safety of loved ones depend on citizens understanding fight-or-flight choices before they are forced to make them.
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Christmas offers a reminder to the legal profession that technical correctness should not eclipse justice.
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A heart filled with love for God and our fellow human beings is the birthday gift which Jesus really wants from us.
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Christmas, beyond the glitter, traditions and rituals, can be seen symbolically as the bringing in of the Christ Light — the way the Baby Jesus came into the…
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Bondi was never a place of deep personal memory; I was there for barely an hour. But it lodged itself in my imagination as a space of order and ease.
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