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Gaudete! And let’s break out a carol or two…
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jmcgee
“Gesu Bambino,” anyone? This is one of my favorites, and nobody does it better than these gals: Kathleen Battle and Frederica von Staade. Enjoy.
Homily for December 12, 2010: 3rd Sunday of Advent
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jmcgee
What have you planted this Advent? Check out this Sunday’s homily right here.
Silent plight: complaints put halt to Christmas carols
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jmcgee
Seems the familiar tunes chiming from one university’s clock tower weren’t “inclusive” enough. Details: The clock tower at Southern Illinois University has played Christmas carols for nearly 15 years. But this year, someone complained, leading university officials to briefly silence the holiday tradition until they could add a more diverse selection of music. “We got…
WikiLeaks: Pope’s offer to Anglicans might lead to violence
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jmcgee
That’s evidently another little bombshell contained in the documents, according to the Guardian: The British ambassador to the Vatican warned that Pope Benedict XVI’s invitation to Anglican opponents of female priests to convert en masse to Catholicism was so inflammatory that it might lead to discrimination and even violence against Catholics in Britain, according to…
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