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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In a break with tradition, the Pope has decided to celebrate Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve at 10:00 p.m. rather than at midnight.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist According to a new report by the worldwide Catholic relief organization, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), 75 to 85 percent of religious persecution around the world today is suffered by Christians.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist After receiving complaints from parents and schools, a distributor of school supplies is being forced to travel throughout the state of Missouri to pull pencils and notebooks that carry Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign logo.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Citing the need to be “neutral,” officials charged with organizing the United Nations (UN) conference on global warming in Copenhagen have banned Christmas trees from the venue.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The public is responding with outrage to a video appearing on the website of a Michigan clinic that presents abortion as “sacred work.”

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer Homosexual activists are planning to run a “mock-u-mentary” on Broadway tomorrow  entitled “Santa Claus is Coming Out” which features Santa falling in love with Italian toymaker Giovanni Geppetto.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Despite claims of “universal resistance” to the Vatican Visitation of U.S. nuns, the head of the investigation says the process is moving along just fine.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist A vote on an amendment to prohibit federal funding for abortion in the Senate health care reform proposal could come as early as today. Analysts say abortion may turn out to be the deal-breaker with both sides vowing not to compromise.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist As leaders of the world converge upon Copenhagen to discuss climate change, Pope Benedict XVI expressed his hope that the meeting would result in policies that are “respectful of creation” and are “grounded in the dignity of the human person.”

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  Last Wednesday on our radio program, Women of Grace Live (Weekdays 11 AM ET via EWTN Radio or via podcast www.womenofgrace.com and Sirius 160) I had a "scathingly brilliant idea"(Hayley Mills, The Trouble with Angels). Why not post some of our listeners, viewers, and blog readers favorite Christmas recipes? So, I invited everyone to send in their submissions. The following culinary delights were sent to us by Mike from Terre Haute, Indiana. I'd love to receive your submissions as well. You can do so by sending them to info@womenofgrace.com or by way of "Comments" right here on the blog. Mike's recipes follow. Happy cooking and joyful eating!

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