Though we may know the first verse and the refrain of a number of Christmas carols, do we know the origin of these songs we sing each December?
Why we come a’caroling
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More than 1,500 venerate skull of St. Thomas Aquinas during Baltimore visit
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Saints, Video
More than 1,500 people venerated the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas at Ss. Philip and James in Homewood Dec. 17-18. The Dominican-led parish was the final stop of a tour sponsored by the Dominican Province of St. Joseph that included visits to 11 sites in seven states and the District of Columbia.
Catholic University faces $30M ‘structural deficit’ amid higher education headwinds
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Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, News, World News
The Catholic University of America is facing a “structural deficit of $30 million” that the school “must address through both budget cuts and revenue growth,” said president Peter Kilpatrick in a Dec. 6 email to alumni.
Emmy-winning Catholic sound engineer inducted into honor society
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Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News
David Wainwright, a sound engineer and parishioner of St. Bernardine, was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter’s (NATAS-NCCB) prestigious Silver Circle this fall in Baltimore.
Catholic Review Radio welcomes Mark Viviano
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview
Mark Viviano, retired sports director for WJZ-TV and a columnist for the Catholic Review, is joining Catholic Review Radio as one of the award-winning program’s regular hosts.
Cupich: Standing, not kneeling, for Communion a ‘powerful symbolic expression’
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Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments
Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago is advocating for Catholic faithful to receive holy Communion standing — the normative posture established by the U.S. Catholic bishops — as part of a renewed awareness of the theology of the Communion procession.
Jesus is the path and destination for Jubilee pilgrims, pope says
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Jubilee 2025, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Francis called on Catholics to focus their Holy Year 2025 pilgrimages on Jesus Christ, who is both the path and destination for Christian hope.
Father Canterna earns Dismas Award for tireless prison ministry
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Prison Ministry, Vocations
Father Charles “Chuck” Canterna, who has worked tirelessly in prison ministry for nearly five decades, has been named the 2025 St. Dismas Award recipient by the Dismas Ministry, a national prison outreach organization.
Iraqi police intercepted terrorists planning to assassinate him, pope says
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
On Pope Francis’ 88th birthday, two major newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean published two different excerpts from his new book on hope.
Miracle in Los Angeles: Priest recounts Frassati’s intercession in healing
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OSV News
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Father Juan Manuel Gutierrez, associate pastor at St. John the Baptist Church in Baldwin Park, Calif., spoke at a Dec. 16 press conference at his parish to share his experiences of being healed from a serious sports injury after seeking the intercession of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati.
Father John C. Devin, C.Ss.R. dies at 92
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries
Father Devin was an associate pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus in Highlandtown and assist at the former nearby chapels of St. Gerard and Holy Redeemer from 1987 to 1988.
Jesus’ crown of thorns returns to Notre Dame Cathedral
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Firefighters and police officers formed a human chain to rescue the crown of thorns from the inferno at Notre Dame on April 15, 2019. On Dec. 13, 2024, this holiest relic of Paris’ cathedral was returned to its proper home on the Île de la Cité.
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