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December 2013

December 26, 2013

Pope Francis Visits Children’s Hospital for Christmas

Pope Francis repeated a 2005 visit by Pope Benedict XVI with a Christmas visit to...

December 24, 2013

Pope Francis Visits Benedict to Wish Him a Merry Christmas

We are blessed to have both these men.

December 22, 2013

Pope Francis: Living Our Faith Publicly in the End Times

These words of Pope Francis are especially important to those of who are living...

December 15, 2013

Do You Believe Jesus is Alive?

Never forget that we are resurrection people.

December 14, 2013

Pope Francis Trades Caps with Boston College Students

I have got to go to Rome. I just want to see my Papa, even...

December 12, 2013

Pope Francis is Person of the Year and It Doesn’t Mean a Thing

Time Magazine named Pope Francis their 'Person of the Year' for 2013. This honor, which...

December 10, 2013

Evangelii Gaudium Cliff Notes Part 2: The Beam in My Eye

And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log...

December 09, 2013

Pope Francis Credits Nun with Saving His Life

Like every pope before him, Pope Francis brings his own history to the Papacy....

December 08, 2013

Baptists Teach Catholics How to Follow Church Teaching

This is basically what Pope Francis teaches about economics in Evangelii Gaudium. There...

December 07, 2013

Court Says Priests Must Pay Income Tax on the Rectory

My priest makes a salary. It qualifies him for food stamps, medicaid and government housing....

December 06, 2013

My Take — Not Pope Francis’ — On a Christian Approach to Economics and Government

I've been the voice of a large number of people in government for 18...

December 05, 2013

If You’re Looking for Me, You’ll Find Me Standing with the Pope

Pope Francis' wonderful exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium is a call to each of us to do...

December 04, 2013

Defenders Describe Attack on Argentine Cathedral as “Satanic, Part of an Anti-Christian World Revolution”

I thought when I began work on this post that I would have a lot...

December 04, 2013

His Holiness Who Talks About Other People’s Sins vs That Gasbag in Rome Who Talks about My Sins

Evangelii Gaudium is a convicting document. If you read it with an honest heart, you...

December 03, 2013

Evangelii Gaudium Cliff Notes: Part 1, The Call

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the...

December 02, 2013

I Am a Woman, a Feminist, a Christian.

Fellow Patheosi, Tony Jones, who blogs at Theoblogy, published one of those slap-in-the-face posts last...

December 02, 2013

Nobody Asked My Opinion. But that Doesn’t Stop Me from Giving It.

Patheos has been running a debate among high-profile thinkers about Christian engagement in politics. I am not...

November 2013

November 30, 2013

Rush Limbaugh, Pope Francis and Frogs

Rush Limbaugh, who is nobody's nominee for Nice Person of the Year, says that "somebody's...

November 29, 2013

Pope Francis Dedicates 2015 to Consecrated Life

Pope Francis announced that 2015 will be dedicated to consecrated life. His message to...

November 27, 2013

Pope Francis Calls on You and Me to Evangelize the World

This is a video summary of Evangelii Gaudium, written by Pope Francis and...

November 26, 2013

Pope Francis Issues New Document. Calls for Missionary Church.

I dream of a “missionary option”, that is, a missionary impulse capable of transforming...

November 25, 2013

Is Russia a Surprise Ally in the Defense of Persecuted Christians?

Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, is paying a visit to the Pope. According...

November 24, 2013

I Confess

Pope Francis on confession. I included two videos because together they give a fuller...

November 24, 2013

Pope Francis Displays Peter’s Bones at Closing Mass of the Year of Faith

Pope Francis displayed St Peter's bones at the closing mass of the Year of...

November 19, 2013

Pope Francis Hands Out Boxes with ’59 Little Pills’ in Them

Pope Francis offered medicine boxes that contained "59 little pills," in St Peter's Square this...

November 17, 2013

The Embrace that went Viral

I have a friend with this genetic disease. His daughter died of it. That makes...

November 17, 2013

Why is Pope Francis Listed Among the World’s Most Influential Jews?

Pope Francis was recently listed as one of the world's most influential Jews. Here's...

November 13, 2013

The Big Duh of Pope Francis’ “Bombshell Quotes”

Jesus Christ was a revolutionary. Not, mind you, the gun-toting, building-blowing-up, people-killing kind of revolutionary....

November 11, 2013

Pope Francis: Sinners Repent. The Corrupt Do Not.

Pope Francis gave a hard-hitting homily during his daily morning mass. "We are all...

November 03, 2013

Fatima and Akita: The Third Secret

Oh my Jesus, forgive me my sins and save me from the fires of hell....