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A Seminary in Cincinnati with Positive Numbers (Vocations Boom!), Action Item! @CatholicCincy - Fr. Z’s Blog+++

You Won’t Believe These Nativity Sets – Part IV – Matt Vander Vennet, epicPew

Heartwarming Christmas Stories the Mainstream Media Should Report – Katie Yoder, Catholic Vote

The Wisdom in Wonder: Children at Christmas Time – Elizabeth Anderson, Crisis Magazine

The First Christmas – Carlos Caso-Rosendi

Christmas in Beijing: An Apple for Peace, the Crib “in the Heart” – AsiaNews.it

Detached: Cutting the Threads That Hold Us Back from God – Dom Cingoranelli, Catholic Stand

Life in “Little Rome,” in the heart of Washington, D.C. – Aurora C. Griffin, The Catholic World Report

Did Irish Explorer St. Brendan Discover America in 6th Century – Phillip Kosloski, Aleteia

What Do We Mean by the Communion of Saints? – Msgr. Charles Pope, Community in Mission

Why Did Jesus Leave the Burial Cloth Rolled Up & In a Separate Place? – Aleteia

A New CNS Series about Gregorian Chant – Gregory DiPippo, New Liturgical Movement

Prince Charles: Christians Shouldn’t Take Religious Freedom for Granted – Catholic Herald

The Desert Flowers: The Gospel & Isaiah – Randall B. Smith Ph.D., The Catholic Thing

The Ascetic Prophet & the Everyday Savior – Fr. Hugh Barbour O. Præm., Catholic Answers Magazine

Revisiting & Understanding the “Galileo Affair” – The Catholic World Report

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Edward Reginald Frampton, “The Voyage of St. Brendan,” 1908, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin.

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J.R.R. Tolkien’s mystic west was inspired by the legendary voyage of St. Brendan, who sailed on a quest for a Paradise in the midst and mists of the ocean.