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Looking for another, more meaningful New Year’s resolution? Bob, McCarty, director of the National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministry, said in an interview with xt3 recently, that he has a great love and admiration for Catholic young adults today “because this is the generation that is most called to serve.”  
Xt3 linked the interview to [...]

I drove by a Lutheran church yesterday morning when the bells were chiming this classic Christmas hymn. Then I ran across an excerpt in the St. Gregory parish bulletin about the current state of Bethlehem.
The article was originally published in the Sept. 1, 2008 issue of America, a weekly Jesuit Catholic magazine. The full version is only [...]

Today’s entry on the xt3 Christmastide calendar listed alternative ways to ring in the New Year. The Franciscan Renewal Center in Scottsdale, is one of four U.S. venues who made the list. 
That’s because the center is offering a way to ring in the New Year Catholic-style — by treating yourself to spiritual renewal in 2009. [...]

I got a press release from Xavier College Preparatory last week about the school’s effort to bring Christmas to soldiers whose service to their country has separated them from their families at Christmas. I since learned that other Catholic high schoolers also reached out to them.
It was all through the efforts of Bridget Alcocer from Phoenix, [...]

Unable to make it to a Christmas Mass this year?
That’s okay.
Now, Skyline Productions, the same people responsible for the TV Mass broadcast live from Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral every Sunday, is helping to put this year’s Christmas Eve Mass with Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted online.
Homebound Catholics won’t have to miss the communal celebration of this [...]