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From new bishops to a Guadalupe miracle, an Angelus News 2019 review
As we close the book on another year, let’s take a look back at some of our most-read stories from Angelus News in 2019.
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Resolve for a new decade
I hope you had a beautiful and holy Christmas with your family and loved ones.
As I was celebrating the midnight Mass, I was reflecting that this is the final Christmas of the decade. -
Catholic publications join in naming people of the year
With the close of 2019, Catholic publications joined the trend in naming people of the year by identifying Catholics who made a particular impact over the past 12 months.
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Inmates get a taste of Christmas joy during Archbishop’s jail visit
To an outsider, the signs that this is no ordinary Christmas Mass are obvious.
Posted from what resembles a choir loft, deputies in riot gear from the Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team keep watch as inmates wearing blue, light green, and white jumpsuits file inside the drab, windowless chapel on the third floor of Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles.
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Emmaus Ministry brings light of hope to grieving parents
A beautiful little girl with long brown hair dies unexpectedly, as does a precious baby only a few days old, a troubled young man with a wife and two children, and a stunning, 20-something woman with the world by the tail, along with 13 others. All are gone too soon, leaving behind devastated parents agonizing over what happened and why.
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Archbishop Gomez: the good materialism of Christmas
Pope Francis gave us an early Christmas gift with “Admirabile Signum” (“Enchanting Image”), his little letter on the ancient custom of setting up Nativity scenes as a way to prepare for the birth of Jesus.
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100-plus Nativity sets fill Santa Ana home with Christmas spirit Santa Ana home features more
ember 24, 2019 at 8:36 am | UPDATED: December 27, 2019 at 5:34 pm
Baby Jesus takes over Alma Madrid’s house in Santa Ana every Christmas.Madrid has more than 100 Nativity scenes spread throughout her home, a collection that started some four decades ago and has become a labor of love.
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Archbishop José Gomez Brings Vision Fixed on Jesus’ Call to Be Saints
Archbishop José Gomez, the nation’s first Latino American bishop to lead the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, comes into the job at a testing time — facing the continuing fallout from the McCarrick scandal and other aspects of the clergy abuse scandal, as well as the ongoing challenge of preaching the Gospel in a polarized and ever-more-secular American society.
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Looking for peace in the hustle and bustle? Get this book on the Rosary
In one of his Christmas sermons, St. John Henry Newman speaks of Christmas as “a time for innocence and purity and gentleness and mildness and contentment and peace.” In this season, he says, we are reminded that Christ comes to us “in all serenity and peace.”
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The materialism of Christmas
Pope Francis gave us an early Christmas gift with “Admirabile Signum” (“Enchanting Image”), his little letter on the ancient custom of setting up Nativity scenes as a way to prepare for the birth of Jesus.
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