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VATICAN CITY — Vatican finances have taken a hard hit from the coronavirus pandemic and its lockdowns, Pope Francis said, but he promised Vatican employees none of them would lose their jobs. 

VATICAN CITY — The Gospel of Matthew never details how many Magi came from "the East," but it makes it clear they traveled to pay homage to "the newborn king of the Jews" and "offered him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh." 

In the wake of announcements from multiple pharmaceutical companies about safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, many are expressing ethical doubts about whether it is OK to take these vaccines. Do Catholics have a moral duty to decline an inoculation if it was unethically produced using a cell line that came from an abortion? 

VATICAN CITY — Reaching out to and helping the poor "is to imitate God; it is to make oneself small out of love in order to raise up the other," the preacher of the papal household told Pope Francis, officials of the Roman Curia and Vatican employees.  

Just because it’s the Christmas season is no reason to pause the culture war. And here to celebrate peace and good will in its own peculiar fashion is the Secular Democrats of America PAC, with its program for pushing religion out of public life.

I really wanted to start this column any way except “Well, it’s been an unusual year.”  Seeing as how virtually every article you read this week will most likely begin the same way.

“Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,” which means, “God is with us” (Mt 1:23).

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The coronavirus pandemic has hit thousands of foreign workers hard in the glitzy Gulf emirate of Dubai, leaving them jobless and starving. But one of the largest Catholic congregations in the world, found in Dubai, has stepped up as "Good Samaritans" ministering to the needy, and now it hopes to bless even more during this Christmas season. 

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