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The Birth of Jesus, Revealed to St. Bridget - Fr. Ryan Erlenbush, New Theological Movement

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich’s Mystical Vision of Christ’s Birth - Dr. Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

The Priest Whose Preaching was like a ‘Spiritual Earthquake’ - Catholic Herald

Christmas Myths & Furrowed Brows - Rich, Over the Rhine and Into the Tiber

The Activism of the Ordinary - Nathaniel Gotcher, Ignitum Today

“What, Really, is the Point of Christmas? Why did God become Man?” - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

Washington at Bay - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic

About Those Christmas Animals - Ray Sullivan, Catholic Lane

Blood, Bones And Flesh: God Joins The Human Race - Vanessa Barnes, Gulf Coast Catholic

An Apology to Cardinal Pell - R.R. Reno, First Things/On the Square

Church in Nigerian Capital Abuja Hit by Explosion - Daily Telegraph

Bombs, ‘Sects’ and Questions in Nigeria - Terry Mattingly, Get Religion

LGBT Groups Using Anti-Catholic Rhetoric & Klu Klux Klan Tactics - Y.M. Daviyd, David Gray

IPPF: Gay Men Happier and Healthier When Gay Marriage Legal - Lisa Correnti, Turtle Bay and Beyond

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