China tells some priests they can’t celebrate funerals in people’s homes
Christian funerals outside of churches have been banned in some areas of China as the communist government begins to enforce new regulations on religious practices
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Christian funerals outside of churches have been banned in some areas of China as the communist government begins to enforce new regulations on religious practices
Read MoreReading 1 2 Sm 18:9-10, 14b, 24-25a, 30–19:3
Absalom unexpectedly came up against David’s servants.
He was mounted on a mule,
and, as the mule passed under the branches of a large terebinth,
his hair caught fast in the tree.
He hung between heaven a…
Reading 1 2 Sm 18:9-10, 14b, 24-25a, 30–19:3
Absalom unexpectedly came up against David’s servants.
He was mounted on a mule,
and, as the mule passed under the branches of a large terebinth,
his hair caught fast in the tree.
He hung between heaven a…
The Pontiff wrote a message for the 150th anniversary of the declaration of Rome as Italy’s capital.
Read More“Venezuela’s economy has been caught in a downward spiral for years with growing political discontent, exacerbated further by soaring hyperinflation, power cuts and shortages of food and medicine,” the report notes. “In recent y…
Read MoreThe Pope’s February prayer intention, disseminated by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer), is “that the cries of our migrant brothers and sisters, victims of criminal human smuggling and human trafficking, may…
Read More“Immigrants from Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania will face new restrictions in obtaining certain visas to come to the United States,” the Associated Press reported. “But it is not a total travel ban.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | Art & Culture, Featured, Football, News, sports, St. Simeon, The Presentation of Jesus, Weekly Headlines |
The Feast of the Presentation recalls the old man Simeon chanting thanks for having lived to see the Messiah. His Nunc Dimittis—“Let thy servant depart in peace”—is part of the Church’s evening prayers. In 542 in Constantinople, the Emperor Justinian placed it into the Eastern Liturgy. This year the Feast fell on Super Bowl Sunday. […]
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | Catholic Living, Featured, Homosexuality, News, Sexual Revolution, Weekly Headlines |
Back in 2014, I wrote a book called Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity. I spoke not as an interpreter of Scripture or of the teachings of the Church. My arguments were based on observation, logic, history, anthropology, and culture. As far as I know, no Catholic on the left has taken them up. My […]
“Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.”—Mark 16:15 Like many powerful forces in this world, online communication is capable of building-up humanity or tearing people down and apart from each […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | Anscombe Bioethics Centre, bioethics, Catholic Church, Interviews, lead, moral theology, News, Pontifical Academy for Life |
As the Pontifical Academy for Life prepares for its Feb. 26-28 assembly, the Vatican body announced several new appointments, including Michael Wee, from the Oxford-based Anscombe Bioethics Centre.
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Read MoreBy Tito Edwards | The Awakening Of Miss Prim – Joseph Pearce at Faith & Culture +1
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We Need an End to ‘the Liturgy Wars’ –…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | Best of Week, confession, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Lent, Lourdes, Mary, News, repentance, Sophia Excerpts |
“Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills to send you, as an act of reparation for the conversion of sinners?” — Our Lady of Fatima I try to visit Lourdes once a year to spend time in prayer with Jesus and Mary. During my week-long visits, I […]
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | Bishop Robert Barron, Catholic Church, Evangelization, Faith, Faith and Culture, Featured, In the Spotlight, News, Pope Francis, Prayer, witness, Word On Fire |
I write these words from the Eternal City of Rome, whither I’ve come with my brother bishops from Region 11 (California, Nevada, and Hawaii) for our ad limina visit. This is a regular and canonically required trip to pray at the limina a…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | 2020, Columns, damnation, David Bentley Hart, demons, eternal restoration, Gehenna, good thief, Jesus Christ, Michael Pakaluk, Mk 5:10-20, Mt 25:46, News, The Catholic Thing, torment, unquenchable fire, What Jesus Did Not Say About Hell |
Michael Pakaluk: The evidence says the Lord taught that unrepented sin leads to eternal damnation. So, if Hell is invented, it must be Jesus who created it.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Holy Scripture, Lent, News, Prayer |
God is always so good that He constantly showers us with the most abundant graces. His Church, which is called His Mystical Body, incessantly rains down upon us a torrential downpour of graces. This is manifest in a very special way in the Church Liturgical cycle, most specifically in the Strong Seasons—both Advent leading to Christmas […]
Posted by bcadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | In the News, News |
One of the chief architects of the German Church’s synodal path which begins today has said an important novelty of…
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Big Tech’s hostility to pro-lifers isn’t terribly surprising in light of how close it is with Planned Parenthood and the…
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Read MoreFinally, it is objected that the ultimate loss of a single soul means the defeat of omnipotence. and so it…
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