Home // CNP December 22-23 2012 > Pope's butler, Palestinian president, massacre reflection
A sledgehammer attack on two American churches, a pardon looms closer for the Pope's butler over his theft of Vatican documents, the Pope meets Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, and US Catholic educators say greater security is not the answer to preventing mass shootings.
Sledgehammer attack on two US churches (CNA)
Pardon looms closer for Pope's butler (Vatican Insider)
US influence grows in the Curia (Vatican Insider)
School massacre not part of God's plan, says pastor (CNA)
More security is not answer to shootings, say Cath educators (NCR)
Head of CDF urges Catholics to welcome ordinariate converts (Catholic Herald)
Pope meets with Palestinian president (ICN)
Pope accepts resignation of Chaldean Patriarch (CNA)
Pope advances sainthood cause of Pope Paul VI (NCR)
Caritas on alert in Syria as crisis escalates (ICN)
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What better time to shop with a conscience than Christmas, the spiritual-gone-secular holiday that has sadly (and ironically) become synonymous with "shop till you drop"?, writers Heidi Schlumpf in NCR Online.
Luke 1:39-44
In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, 40where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 41When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb.
One of my favourite memories of Christmas as a child is all the different generations of our family coming together for Christmas Day. Many travelled from a long way to be there and would stay for a couple of days so it was great to spend time with them. Of course, families are at the heart of all we do as a Church and Christmas is a time to remember the family of Mary, Joseph and Jesus and how God came to us as a tiny, helpless baby to save us and show us the way to eternal life, writes Archbishop Philip Wilson.
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What better time to shop with a conscience than Christmas, the spiritual-gone-secular holiday that has sadly (and ironically) become synonymous with "shop till you drop"?, writers Heidi Schlumpf in NCR Online.