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The eccentricities of a notorious self-funding filmmaker (James Franco, who also directed) and the story of the friendship (with Dave Franco) that led to the making of his famously bad 2003 movie "The Room" provide steady laughs but will also touch viewers' hearts as the relationship at the center of this fact-based comedy endures through numerous strains.
If good things come to those who wait, then great things are in store for Deacon Michael Baggot, a seminarian with the Legionaries of Christ. After 10 years in formation and studies that took him from Germany to Mexico to Rome, he is just days from his goal.
People who knew Thomas Becket didn’t like him much. He was a superb administrator, with a genius for making himself indispensible to the most powerful people in England. And he was very good at making himself wealthy. Considering that he was canonized only two years after his death, it must have come as a shock to them that Becket was now a saint and a martyr.
Catholics in our country are barely aware that our coreligionists around the world are persecuted — sometimes subtly, sometimes cruelly — in dozens of countries. Pope Francis has said that there are "more martyrs today than in Christianity's first centuries," and many of them are in the region where Christianity was born.
In the years since its 1959 dedication, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception has had three main architectural focal points: on the exterior, its Great Dome and Knights Tower over the northeast Washington skyline, and in the interior, its dramatic Christ in Majesty Mosaic behind the main altar.
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Hispanic Catholics gather to honor Mary on the feast day.
A Nativity scene and Christmas tree, like those displayed in St. Peter's Square, are visible reminders of God's benevolence and closeness to all men and women, Pope Francis said.
U.S. Catholic musician Matt Maher has advice for young people: Waste more time at the feet of Jesus, and the rest of your life should go according to God's plan.
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Rejoicing on Gaudete Sunday
The third Sunday of Advent is traditionally called "Gaudete Sunday" or the "Sunday to rejoice.” It goes back to a time when Advent was more deeply penitential than it is today. Gaudete Sunday signaled the halfway mark signifying that Advent was almost over. People were invited to rejoice that Christmas was near.