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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2020 | Latest News, News |
A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Elections, faith and politics, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis |
Meeting with a group of U.S. bishops this week, Pope Francis warned against seeming to participate in partisan politics and instead have the Church limit itself to promoting Christian values as people prepare to vote.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2020 | Church in the US, integral ecology, Laudato Si, lead, News, Solar |
A California retreat center’s latest effort to implement Pope Francis’s vision of “integral ecology” is expected to save Catholics in its region more than $2 million over the next 25 years.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2020 | Bishop Daniel Flores, Donald Trump, Interviews, lead, March for Life, News, Pope Francis, Theodore McCarrick |
On Friday, President Donald Trump will become the first U.S. president to attend the March for Life in Washington. According to Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, Texas, his participation is a political move in an election year.
Read MoreExecutives with the New Orleans Saints helped archdiocesan officials plan public-relations strategy to cope with the fallout from sex-abuse complaints. In a lawsuit against the New Orleans archdiocese, plaintiffs are seeking documents from the football…
Read MoreUS Vice President Mike Pence met on January 24 with Pope Francis, and told reporters after the meeting that they had discussed the March for Life, which took place in Washington the same day. Pence said that he had also spoken with the Pontiff about th…
Read More“Unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the White House,” boasted President Donald Trump, as he addressed hundreds of thousands of pro-life demonstrators participating in the March for Life on January 24.
Read MoreWomen Church World, the magazine for women published by the Vatican, has suggested that abuse and exploitation—by priests and religious superiors—has been an important factor in the declining number of women in religious life. The magazine reported tha…
Read MoreBy Tito Edwards | Extraordinary Public Display Of Turin Shroud In 2020 – Robin Gomes at Vatican News +1
Divine Mercy Image vs. Shroud of Turin: Are They Identical? Intriguing Evidence – ChurchPOP…
Read MoreWashington D.C., Jan 23, 2020 / 10:15 pm (CNA).- An estimated 10,000 pilgrims traveled from both near and far to attend Mass at the opening of the National Prayer Vigil for Life celebrated on Thursday, Jan. 23 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, holiness, Marriage & Family, marriage and family, motherhood, News, Sophia Excerpts, Spiritual Life |
To be like Christ is to grow in love, and other than the marital embrace, there is no human love like a mother’s love for her child. She gives of herself over and over again, without asking anything in return. So that yes to God in caring for your children imitates Mary in her yes to God in caring for Jesus.
Flick on the television, turn to the news, and notice how hopeless it all looks. Terrorists kill hundreds and intimidate millions. Governments push their authority as we seem to move towards war. Things did not appear much better in first century Galilee. The king was an irreligious adulterer and a lackey of the hated Romans. […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2020 | Between the Sundays, C. S. Lewis, Featured, Living the Faith, Narnia, News, Prayer, prayer life, spiritual growth, Spiritual Life, St. Francis de Sales, The Chronicles of Narnia, winter |
“We can have confidence that God is still working—even in the coldness, even in the darkness, even when all seems quiet.” For much of the Northern Hemisphere, January is that month when the weather finally makes up its mind to turn cold, the nigh…
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“When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, He withdrew to Galilee.” Danger drove Jesus into a land that historically had known great danger and grave sorrow. Why? Gospel (Read Mt 4:12-23) St. Matthew tells us that when John the Baptist fell into Herod’s hands, Jesus decided to leave Jerusalem. Surely He read the signs of the […]
Posted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2020 | Bishop and Doctor of the Church, Daily Readings, Memorial of Saint Francis de Sales, News |
Memorial of Saint Francis de Sales, bishop and doctor of the Church Readings: 1 Samuel 24:3-21 Psalms 57:2, 3-4, 6, 11 Mark 3:13-19 Memorial of Saint Francis de Sales Readings: Ephesians 3:8-12 Psalms 37:3-4, 5-6, 30-31 John 15:9-17
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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2020 | Bishop and Doctor of the Church, Daily Readings, Memorial of Saint Francis de Sales, News |
Memorial of Saint Francis de Sales, bishop and doctor of the Church Readings: 1 Samuel 24:3-21 Psalms 57:2, 3-4, 6, 11 Mark 3:13-19 Memorial of Saint Francis de Sales Readings: Ephesians 3:8-12 Psalms 37:3-4, 5-6, 30-31 John 15:9-17
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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2020 | 2020, abortion in China, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Archbishop Joseph Naumann, Columns, Guttmacher Institute, Life by the Numbers, March for Life 2020, News, Pope Francis, Robert Royal, Roe v. Wade, The Catholic Thing, Washington |
Robert Royal: Today’s march in Washington redoubles efforts to defend the millions who die under the murderous, unrecognized abortion ideology.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2020 | Commentary, News |
The good, the bad, the ugly, and the redeeming to be experienced in the largest, most passionate, longest-lived annual demonstration…
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Read MoreThe best way to overcome and defeat the dangerous culture of death is to give firm foundations and clear content…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 24, 2020 | In the News, News |
President Donald Trump will address the national March for Life in person on Friday, making him the first president in…
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