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"It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness" (The Christopher motto)

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January 4, 2019 Uncategorized

Advent points us toward the light of Christ: an interview with Deacon Greg Kandra

People can seem a little self-obsessed nowadays, with our endless selfies and social media posts. But during the season of

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January 4, 2019 Uncategorized

How Al Smith and FDR countered the KKK and anti-Catholic prejudice in politics

Catholics in the United States should be deported because they can never be good American citizens due to their allegiance

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January 4, 2019 Uncategorized

Country music star Josh Turner on trusting God, singing gospel, and learning from your elders

Around 25 years ago in the town of Hannah, South Carolina, a teenage Josh Turner felt a passion for country

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January 4, 2019 Uncategorized

Singer-songwriter PJ Anderson calls on Christians to “bring about the light in the darkness”

The paintings of Caravaggio. The high school shootings in Parkland. The grace of a family’s love in caring for a

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January 4, 2019 Uncategorized

“The chicken runs at midnight” became proof of heaven for a grieving father

“The chicken runs at midnight” isn’t a sentence you’ll find in your Bible, no matter how modern the translation. However,

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January 4, 2019 Uncategorized

How a European showman saved thousands of American babies in an era of eugenics

If you were a woman who gave birth to a premature baby weighing between two and three pounds during the

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January 4, 2019 Uncategorized

“Last Man Standing” premiere brings needed message to a divided America

“People should matter more than ideas.” That’s a line from the Dean Koontz novel, “The Silent Corner,” which I recently

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January 4, 2019 Uncategorized

Can a millennial find the God he doesn’t believe in? A review of CBS’s “God Friended Me”

“I found God. He’s in Jersey.” Though technically God is everywhere, he doesn’t appear in the Garden State in the

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January 4, 2019 Uncategorized

Author’s young adult novel deals with racism and being shelter for each other

After learning about the murder of an African American teen in Chicago’s 1919 race riots, author and educator Bibi Belford

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January 4, 2019 Uncategorized

Will “all things work together for good” on NBC’s new series “Manifest”?

You might not expect a network drama to launch with a throughline grounded in a Bible verse, but that seems

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About Tony Rossi

After graduating from St. John’s University in New York with degrees in Communications and English, Tony Rossi (the guy on the left) found a job at the Catholic media organization, The Christophers, that allowed him to indulge his interest in religion, media, and pop culture. He served as The Christophers’ TV producer for 11 years, and is currently the organization’s Director of Communications. The job entails hosting and producing the radio show/podcast “Christopher Closeup,” writing and editing the syndicated “Light One Candle” column, producing and scriptwriting the annual Christopher Awards ceremony, and more.

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