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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 29, 2020 | Archdiocese of New Orleans, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Football, New Orleans, News, NFL |
The Archdiocese of New Orleans said in a Jan. 24 statement that it has never called on any outside organization, like the New Orleans Saints, to help cover up information on abuse allegations.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 29, 2020 | Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Associated Press, Bankruptcy, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Minnesota, News |
Prosecutors announced Tuesday that they have ended four years of oversight of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis as part of settlement designed to protect children from clergy sex abuse.
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Catholics in Missouri have been urged to pray for the soul of Fr Evan Harris who has taken his own life
Read MoreArchbishop John Myers, 78, was Bishop of Peoria (1990-2001) and Archbishop of Newark (2001-2016). In 2014, he came under fire for an expensive new addition to his personal residence.
Read MoreSudan (map) is a northeastern African nation of 44.4 million that is distinct from largely Christian and animist South Sudan. Islam is Sudan’s official religion; the nation is 92% Muslim and 5% Christian, with nearly 3% adhering to ethnic religions.
Read MoreThe diocese issued guidelines in response to the the coronavirus outbreak.
Read MoreProPublica, which was founded in 2008, has received five Pulitzer Prizes. The headline of its story reads, “Catholic Leaders Promised Transparency About Child Abuse. They Haven’t Delivered.”
Read More“Catholics in our country are deeply concerned about the rise in hateful acts against the Jewish community in Finland and other religious communities,” said the chancellor of the Diocese of Helsinki, the nation’s sole Catholic diocese…
Read MoreThe incidents took place in Haryana (map) and Uttar Pradesh (map).
Read MoreThe bishops called for “a ‘binding, supradiocesan monitoring of the areas of investigation, intervention and prevention,’ as well as standardized personnel files of clergy and the ongoing development of material compensation,” a…
Read MoreThe high court “upheld a law that allows the federal government to screen teachers in state-aided madrassas (Islamic schools),” according to the report. “The same principle can be applied to Christian schools, which run in the thousan…
Read More“Jesus’ teaching provides a kind of ‘identity card’ for Christians,” Pope Francis said on January 29 (video). “Like Moses on Sinai, Jesus gives these ‘new commandments’ from a hillside. He does not impose…
Read MoreIf anyone can be said to be the villain of the Gospels, it’s the Pharisees. Sometimes fellow Christians will label Catholics as Pharisees. So, who were they? Where did they come from? And what should we make of their interactions with Jesus?
The Phari…
Read MoreClaiming friendship with God is a good way to get mocked by the “wise” of the world. But it is a central claim of Christianity. How do we make sense of it?
Cy: Is friendship with God really possible? Philosophy professor John Cuddeback next.
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Reading 1 2 Sm 7:4-17
That night the LORD spoke to Nathan and said:
“Go, tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD:
Should you build me a house to dwell in?
I have not dwelt in a house
from the day on which I led the children of Israel
out of Egypt…
In 2019, Pope Francis issued Aperuit illis, an apostolic letter instituting the annual Sunday of the Word of God, which takes place on the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Read MorePope St. John Paul II (1920-2005) was elected Pope in 1978. The forthcoming book is “the product of a series of conversations between Pope Francis and Father Luigi Maria Epicoco which took place from June 2019 to January 2020,” according t…
Read MoreOran is Algeria’s second-largest city. The nation of 41.7 million (map) is 99% Muslim (predominantly Sunni), and Islam is the official religion.
Read MoreThe initiative comes 40 years after the martyrdom of St. Óscar Romero (1917-1980), who was Archbishop of San Salvador (the nation’s capital) during the last three years of his life.
Read MoreAt a Mass celebrated in the chapel of Domus Sanctae Marthae on January 28, Pope Francis preached on 2 Samuel 6:12-19, the first reading of the day.
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