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“There is nothing about God’s anger or punishment or vengeance in all this,” Archbishop Romulo Valles, president of the bishops’ conference, said in reaction to the Taal Volcano eruption. “This is just how our world is.&r…
Read More“What breaks my heart and hurts me deeply is the brutality, irreverence, lack of consideration and indecency with which Benedict XVI was treated,” said the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
Read MoreChristianity is the official religion of the western Pacific nation of 7.1 million (map). The nation is 64% Protestant and 31% Catholic, with 3% adhering to ethnic religions.
Read MoreThe event, “ Remembering the Holocaust: The Documented Efforts of the Catholic Church to Save Lives,” was organized by the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See and the Pave the Way Foundation.
Read MoreThe book, Everyone Belongs, is published by Loyola Press.
Read MoreArchbishop Michel Aupetit was installed as Archbishop of Paris in 2018. Pope St. Paul VI issued Humanae Vitae, his encyclical letter on the regulation of birth, in 1968.
Read More“In 2018, 40 independent clinics closed or no longer qualified as abortion facilities,” according to the report. “Currently, there are six states with only one remaining surgical abortion center … Ohio has gone from 45 in 1992 to just…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2020 | Catholic Living, Christian persecution, Featured, Middle East, News, Weekly Headlines |
Recently the nonagenarian environmentalist, Sir David Attenborough, familiar to viewers of BBC America over many years for his nature shows, warned in bloodcurdling terms that it was almost too late to save the world from the horrors of the “climate crisis.” I remember as a child watching similar warnings during the early 1970s, of the […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2020 | Art & Culture, Fatherhood, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
During a hilarious 2018 performance in London, comedy musicians Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords stop to chat about gender identity dynamics within their two-man band. “The band is very male-dominated. It’s systemic. It’s a systemic problem—it’s the f***ing patriarchy!” they declare to an audience roaring with laughter. McKenzie and Clement, […]
South Bend, Ind., Jan 28, 2020 / 12:59 am (CNA).- The University of Notre Dame’s refusal to pay for drugs that can cause early abortions will face further litigation in court, after a federal judge in Indiana allowed a lawsuit to challenge an agr…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2020 | Liturgy Q-and-A, News |
Change of Presider Is Not Admissible
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2020 | Abuse prevention, CEPROME, Church in the Americas, Father Daniel Portillo, Jordi Bertomeu, lead, Mexico, News |
Mexico’s Catholic University continues to train members of the Catholic Church in addressing the clerical sexual abuse crisis, with a second diploma course on abuse prevention in the Latin American Church.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2020 | Church in the US, diocese of Davenport, Father Rudy Juarez, Iowa caucuses, lead, News, Pete Buttigieg, Senator Chris Dodd, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Vice President Joe Biden |
Some Iowa priests believe the state’s infamous caucuses disenfranchise them from participating publicly in the election process.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2020 | Church in the US, diocese of Lexington, lead, Missionaries of Mercy, News, Pope Francis |
Pope Francis’s agents of mercy gathered in Kentucky to pray, swap stories, and plan for the future of a missionary group that never expected to exist past 2016, let alone into 2020.
Read MoreBy Tito Edwards | In Europe’s Least Catholic Nation, the Church Grows Amid Financial Hardship – Ray Cavanaugh at The Catholic World Report +1
The Infant of Prague – Masha Goepel at Catholic Stand…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2020 | Discernment, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Orthodoxy, Sophia Excerpts, St. Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila |
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
In Ordinary Time, we are invited to set aside our need for excitement in order to enter into the quiet, ordinary life of Nazareth. We are called to contemplate the ways that Jesus entered fully into our ordinary existence, and to be drawn into the mystery of the holiness that is to be found there.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2020 | Carmelite, Faith, Featured, God, In the Spotlight, Jesus Christ, Mother Luisita, News, Prayer, Prayer & Spiritual Life, Real Presence |
Have you ever experienced conflicting emotions or feelings within yourself? Did they seem to embody such opposites that you wondered how they could co-exist in the same body? Well, you’re not alone! Throughout his long life, Simeon knew this all too we…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
Utilitarianism: a very long word, difficult to pronounce without tripping over one of the letters, and understood by very few, permeates the American society with its philosophy and praxis. The modern meaning of Utilitarianism? The human person has value in proportion to how much money they can make and save, as well as the possessions […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2020 | In the News, News |
Pope Francis and the Uruguayan priest, Gonzalo Aemilius, have known each other since 2006, when Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop…
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