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Today's Readings
- Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
  
  Reading 1 Dn 12:1-3
  Responsorial Psalm Ps 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11
  Reading 2 Heb 10:11-14, 18
  Gospel Mk 13:24-32

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National Catholic Register
- 5 Catholic Novels That I Love
  
  By Father John P. Cush | One of the seminal intellectual and spiritual moments in my life was when I was a college seminarian in the 1990s studying at Saint John’s University in New York. I was...
- While New Legislation Waits for Rome, Revival of Leadership Can Start at Home
  
  By The Editors | In the most anticipated and arguably important meetings of the U.S. bishops since 2002, America’s shepherds gathered in Baltimore Nov. 12-14 beneath the shadow of the clergy...
- True Healing for Our Church Depends on What the US Bishops Do Next
  
  By Michael Warsaw | Since the McCarrick scandal broke this summer, the collective Catholic faithful of the United States have been engaged in a tense conversation with their shepherds. From many of...
- Pope Francis Dines With 1,500 Poor at the Vatican
  
  By Edward Pentin | Pope Francis’ enjoyed a Sunday lunch today of lasagna, chicken nuggets, mashed potato and tiramisu with 1,500 people in need, less well-off, and poor (see photos below). The...
- Lessons From the Fig Tree: Reading the Signs of the Times
  
  By Claire Dwyer | Sunday, Nov. 18, is the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass Readings: Daniel 12:1-3; Psalm 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11; Hebrews 10:11-14, 18; Mark 13:24-32. After another long day of...
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News from the Vatican
- Pope prays for those stricken by California wildfires
  
  Pope Francis has prayed for victims of California's wildfires and freezing weather on the U.S. East Coast.
- Pope: the din of ‘ever more rich’ drown out cries of poor
  
  Pope Francis is offering several hundred poor people, homeless, migrants, unemployed a lunch on Sunday as he celebrates the World Day of the Poor with a concrete gesture of charity in the spirit of...
- Pope makes surprise visit to mobile clinic in St. Peter’s Square
  
  Pope Francis made a surprise visit to a mobile health care facility set up in St. Peter's Square to serve the city's homeless and poor.
- World looks the other way at Christian persecution, pope says
  
  Love for neighbor means being close to people, especially those facing oppression and violence for being Christian, and engaging in charitable work that reflects Christian values and promotes...
- Jewish expert says John Paul II had it right on Church/State relations
  
  Joseph Weiler, a prominent professor of law at New York University, has said that at a time of high polemics when the religious voice has been “muted” from the public arena, Saint John Paul II’s...