Since chef Fadi Kattan was a child getting underfoot in his grandmother’s kitchen, the preparation and communal eating of the burbara pudding has been a pre-Christmas symbol of the coming of the holiday on the Palestinian West Bank.
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Patriarch Sabbah: This Christmas, there is ‘no peace on the earth’ in Bethlehem and Jerusalem
Patriarch Sabbah: “When you celebrate Christmas, remember that in Bethlehem, in Jerusalem, life is not a Christmas life. It is not the blessed life of the new redeemed humanity. The song of the Angels is far away.”
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Cardinal Gracias: Pope Francis is ‘in good health’—and isn’t resigning anytime soon.
Pope Francis, who turned 85 on Dec. 17, is “looking well and in good health,” Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the archbishop of Mumbai, said in an exclusive interview with America’s Vatican correspondent.
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A hospital run by Nigerian sisters provides free fistula surgery to women desperate for treatment
Sister Sylvia Ndubuaku: “We are for women the society has rejected. We receive traumatized women with this illness and we perform free surgeries for them.”
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An inside look at Dorothy Day’s contested canonization process
As Dorothy Day’s cause for canonization moves from the local phase to Rome, Colleen Dulle shares her insider’s perspective.
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As Latin American economies decline, U.S. again becomes destination of hope for migrants
New migrant caravans to the United States are always forming with large contingents of Central Americans, but there is a growing presence of Haitians, Venezuelans and Brazilians among them.
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San Francisco archbishop’s reasons for not getting vaccinated don’t add up, public health experts say
Michael Rozier, S.J., said that the archbishop’s claim that his “good” immune system exempts him from needing a vaccine is simply out of touch with science.
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‘Getting nasty emails is not new’: Jesuit high school president isn’t backing down from a controversial vaccine mandate
Principal Bob Ryan knew his decision to require Covid-19 vaccinations or frequent testing would be controversial. What he did not anticipate was what he has called a concerted “campaign to impugn Brophy.”
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A priest ordained in 2017 is now serving a life sentence for sex abuse. How did he slip through the cracks?
The case came as an unhappy shock to Catholics all over the United States who might have hoped that years of procedural changes would have put an end to the ordination of priests like the Rev. Robert McWilliams.
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Canadians are losing patience with the unvaccinated — and the Catholic Church is sending mixed signals
Canadians have embraced coronavirus vaccination in large numbers and are feeling a deepening exasperation with the unvaccinated.