As America takes a brief break from its weekly publication schedule for the Christmas holiday we offer a few online only features for our regular Web readers First we have just posted an online edition of Signs of the Times our weekly news roundup This week s edition includes stories on the Cop

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And it's starting to bug me just a little bit.

For the Third Sunday in Advent I reflected on the joy inherent in the Christmas promises as we look to the past present and future Then some two days later I was felled by a bacterial infection that kept me in bed for the next five days unable to do much beyond sleep take my antibiotics and dr

If you re hoping to fill your Advent season with something more than overcrowded stores and stocking stuffers adventconspiracy org has a few suggestions Give others the gift of your time and talents Then instead of buying numerous presents send the money you would have spent at the mall to a ch

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We have had what I consider a rousing discussion on the Immaculate Conception still ongoing as I write with cris de coeur from some participants that we concentrate more on our relationship with God and less on dogmatic definitions Dogmatic definitions in a sense set the boundaries of discussio

Seems like many of our posts have generated a lot of heat lately nbsp Here s some light from the Ignatian Schola a group of Jesuits and their lay friends who perform contemporary and traditional religious songs nbsp Here s how they describe themselves on their website The Ignatian Schola is a

In the preparation and waiting of Advent both the waiting associated with the Incarnation and Christmas and the preparation for the Second Coming one of the questions that arises is how do you prepare How is anticipation channeled In the passage for the Second Sunday of Advent from Paul rsquo s

Second Sunday of Advent Year C The entrance antiphon and gospel specifically and the first reading and response more allusively speak of God rsquo s role to ldquo save rdquo give ldquo salvation rdquo to Israel believers perhaps all humans and even creation Now is a good time to ask exact