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Angels are the REAL Guardians of the Galaxies...
Posted on 12/13/2025 17:00 PM (New Advent)
A caller on my radio show today asked whether angels are responsible for the “vibrations” heard throughout the universe. He had come across a speaker who suggested something along those lines and wanted to know if it was odd speculation or if the Church actually teaches anything that resembles it. His description mixed a few ideas together, but it touched on something more significant than he realized.
How to Keep Politics From Colonizing Your Soul...
Posted on 12/13/2025 17:00 PM (New Advent)
We didn’t used to think of the holiday dinner table as a flashpoint for heated family disagreements about health care, abortion, and Donald Trump. But somewhere along the way, we began to...or maybe we were taught to. In 2022, the Biden White House released talking points for correcting your wayward relatives over the holidays. A decade earlier an ad with a young man clad in a plaid onesie...
Pope Leo: Repent Sins, Bear Witness, Foster Christian Unity...
Posted on 12/13/2025 17:00 PM (New Advent)
In the new Apostolic Letter In Unitate Fidei it is a pleasure to see Pope Leo doubling down on the importance of Christian unity precisely by not watering down the Catholic Faith, but rather by insisting on the absolute truth of the fundamental Catholic creed set forth by the Council of Nicaea in AD 325.
The Vatican’s Unhappy Return of Canadian Indian Gifts...
Posted on 12/13/2025 17:00 PM (New Advent)
The Catholic Church in Canada has been backpedaling since 2021, when the reports first appeared of mass graves at the “residential schools” run by Catholic religious orders for children of the indigenous (Indian) tribes. To date, exactly zero such “mass graves” have actually been discovered. But critics of the Church have never let a lack of evidence interfere with a good story, so the narrative endures...
Vatican Reports First Budget Surplus After Years of Deficits...
Posted on 12/13/2025 17:00 PM (New Advent)
The Vatican closed 2024 with a budget surplus of 1.6 million euros ($1.85 million), it said on Wednesday, signalling a turnaround after years of deficits that had frustrated Church leaders, including the late Pope Francis.In its first budget report since 2022, the Vatican said it had seen a "significant recovery" in its accounts last year, thanks mainly to higher donations and strong investment gains.
No Duty Is More Urgent Than That of Returning Thanks...
Posted on 12/13/2025 17:00 PM (New Advent)
“What most attracts God’s graces is gratitude,” says the Little Flower, “because if we thank him for a gift, he is touched and hastens to give us ten more, and if we thank him again with the same enthusiasm, what an incalculable multiplication of graces! I have experienced this; try it yourself and you will see! My gratitude for everything he gives me is limitless, and I prove it to him in a thousand ways.”
Pope Leo XIV Arrives in Ankara to Begin First Apostolic Journey to Turkey and Lebanon...
Posted on 12/13/2025 17:00 PM (New Advent)
Pope Leo XIV began the first apostolic journey of his papacy to Turkey and Lebanon from Nov. 27 to Dec. 2. Watch LIVE the major events of this trip at youtube.com/@ewtnnews and follow our live updates of his historic trip:
In a Dark Hour: A Reflection on the First Sunday in Advent...
Posted on 12/13/2025 17:00 PM (New Advent)
Jesus exaggerates in today’s Gospel when He claims not to know the day or the hour when He will come again. Christ occasionally makes such overstatements to drive home a point we might otherwise miss. His point here is that the exact “hour” is not important. What is crucial is that we not postpone our repentance, that we be ready for Him, spiritually and morally, when He comes...
A YouTube Priest Says You Shouldn’t Pray After Communion. Here’s Why He’s Wrong.....
Posted on 12/13/2025 17:00 PM (New Advent)
Jimmy Akin corrects popular Franciscan YouTuber Fr. Casey Cole’s claim that it’s “not appropriate” to pray privately after Communion and that EVERYONE must sing the Communion hymn. Jimmy goes through the argument line-by-line and exposes the claim as a classic “pious little legalism.” Jimmy quotes parts of the General Instruction that Fr. Casey never mentioned and reveals what Rome actually says about post-Communion prayer...
On ‘Beautiful Feast’ of Thanksgiving, Gratitude Should Accompany Your Turkey and Pie, Pope Leo Says...
Posted on 12/13/2025 17:00 PM (New Advent)
Thanksgiving is a “beautiful feast” that reminds everyone to be grateful for the gifts they have been given, Pope Leo XIV said.“Say thank you to someone,” the pope suggested two days before the U.S. holiday when he met reporters outside his residence in Castel Gandolfo before returning to the Vatican after a day off.Pope Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, was scheduled to spend his Thanksgiving Nov. 27 in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey, the first stops on his first foreign trip as pope.