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Paul Mariani is in the most admirable sense a confessional poet. For more than fifty years, he taught modern poetry at various colleges, including the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then, Boston College. He authored […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2020 | darkness, discipleship, Featured, Gospel, Jesus Christ, light, mission, News, preach, proclaim, Scott Hahn, Scripture, Sunday Scripture Reflections |
Dr. Scott Hahn reflects on the Mass readings for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A). Readings: Isaiah 8:23–9:3 Psalm 27:1, 4, 13–14 1 Corinthians 1:10–13, 17 Matthew 4:12–23 Today’s Liturgy gives us a lesson in ancient Israelite geography and h…
Read MoreKrakow, Poland, Jan 25, 2020 / 09:00 am (CNA).- Seventy-five years after the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the Catholic bishops of Europe condemned racism, xenophobia, and anti-Semitism, calling for a renewed human commitment…
Read MoreVatican City, Jan 25, 2020 / 09:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis met Saturday with Iraqi President Barham Salih, and discussed the need to secure the future of Iraq’s deep-rooted Christian population.
The president and the pontiff spoke privately for …
Read MoreBy Alyssa Murphy | 5. Unborn babies may feel pain before 24 weeks.
A new study out this week still tugging at the hearts of pro-lifers everywhere found that babies in the womb can feel pain much sooner…
Read MoreBy Roxanne King | In the late 1970s native New Yorker Francis X. Maier made the decision to leave Hollywood screenwriting to focus on writing a novel, The World on the Last Day, about the fall of Saigon.
To…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2020 | Latest News, News |
Re, 85, will serve a five-year term under the new term limits created by Pope Francis
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2020 | Catholic News Service, Catholic social teaching, Church in the US, Georgetown University, John Carr, Minimum wage, News, Unions, Washington D.C., Workers' rights |
The gains made by some of the Washington area’s lowest-paid workers require much effort but are necessary in one of the country’s least affordable regions, two worker activists said during a Jan. 22 forum at Georgetown University.
Read MoreThe Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) in Hamilton can’t always account at budget time for all its needs, but when some urgent need arises it’s happy there is an organization like the Ex Corde Foundation that can lend a hand.
“Our requirements and need…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2020 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Death threats, Guatemala, migrants and refugees, News, Scalabrini missionaries, Trump administration |
A Catholic priest helping feed and shelter migrants in Central America has filed a complaint with Guatemalan authorities after he and his staff received death threats for providing humanitarian aid for the latest mass of migrants headed toward the United States.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2020 | News, The Dispatch |
Readings: • Is 8:23-9:3 • Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14 • 1 Cor 1:10-13, 17 • Mt 4:12-23 In the opening paragraphs of his encyclical on hope, Pope Benedict XVI observed that the Christian message of […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2020 | Associated Press, Iraq, Iraqi Christians, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vatican diplomacy |
The Vatican on Saturday urged Iraqi President Barham Saleh to guarantee the safety of Christians and ensure they have a future place in the war-battered country.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2020 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, March for Life, News, pro-life, Youth |
Catalina Galinanes, this year’s student speaker at the March for Life rally on the National Mall, has been to almost as many marches as Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund.
Read MoreBy K.V. Turley | Walsingham is unique as a Marian place of pilgrimage in that it has both a Catholic and Anglican shrine. In fact, the 20th-century restoration of the medieval shrine that was destroyed during…
Read MoreBy Courtney Mares/CNA | VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re has been elected the new dean of the College of Cardinals with Cardinal Leonardo Sandri as vice-dean.
Cardinal Re, 85, will…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2020 | Archbishop Peter Machado, Bangalore, Catholic Church, Church in Asia, Church in India, desecration, Eucharist, India, News, second |
An archdiocese in India held a Day of Reparation on Friday after a robber at a local Catholic church scattered the Eucharist from the tabernacle.
Read MoreBy Catholic News Agency | MELBOURNE, Australia — Committee leaders at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voiced prayers and sorrow at the deaths of three American crew members who were…
Read MoreBy Catholic News Agency | NEW ORLEANS, La. — The New Orleans Saints have said assistance that team personnel offered to the Archdiocese of New Orleans on communications strategy was not a…
Read MoreBy Catholic News Agency | WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration has said that California state policies violate federal law for requiring abortion coverage in religious groups’ health…
Read MoreVatican City, Jan 25, 2020 / 05:30 am (CNA).- Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re has been elected the new dean of the College of Cardinals with Cardinal Leonardo Sandri as vice-dean.
Re, 85, will serve a five-year term under the new term limits created by …
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