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By Catholic News Agency | KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On Sunday the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs will play Super Bowl LIV, and the local ordinaries of the teams have made a friendly wager on…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, nuclear disarmament, Nuclear weapons, Pax Christi |
The Cold War may have ended in 1991, but nuclear disarmament advocates in the Catholic Church and beyond say nuclear weapons still pose a grave danger to humanity.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2020 | Brazil, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Married priests, News, Synod for the Amazon, viri probati |
Catholics who work in the Amazon say members of small, isolated villages believe the church could be more present in their lives if it allowed the ordination of married men — a plan being considered on a limited basis for the Amazon region.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2020 | Books, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Pittsburgh, News, Pittsburgh |
Regina Munsch hopes her children’s book, “Growing Up Catholic in Pittsburgh,” finds its way into “church bags” throughout the region.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2020 | Archdiocese of Omaha, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Holy Face, News, Popular devotions, St. Thérèse of Lisieux |
One couple is promoting devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus through home visits with the icon.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2020 | archbishop bernard hebda, Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Deacon Bernie Nojadera, Minnesota, News, Secretariat of USCCB Child and Youth Protection, SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests |
For Frank Meuers, a victim-survivor of clergy sexual abuse, the impact is far-reaching and never-ending.
Read MoreBy Jimmy Akin | Feb. 2 is the Feast of the the Presentation of the Lord.
We read about the presentation of the Lord in Luke 2, but the text can be a little mysterious.
What is actually happening there?
Some claim that Luke…
Read MoreBy Joseph Pronechen | The feast we celebrate for centuries on Feb. 2 is known as the Presentation of the Lord, the Purification of Mary, and Candlemas. Today, the Church calls the feast the Presentation of Our Lord. Until 1969,…
Read MoreBy John Grondelski | Feb. 2 falls on a Sunday this year, and so the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord preempts the Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time. Known unofficially as the Feast of Candlemas (because it was the day candles…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2020 | News, Testimonies of Faith |
Cardinal Fernando Filoni Named a Member
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2020 | News, Pope & Holy See |
Msgr. Michael Francis Crotty of Diocese of Cloyne
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2020 | Health and Healthcare, News |
Receives Staff of Gruppo Villa Maria
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2020 | Angelus/Regina Caeli, News |
Mary and Joseph, Simeon and Anna
The post Pope Describes Twofold Attitude: Movement and Wonder appeared first on ZENIT – English.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2020 | Angelus/Regina Caeli, News |
‘The Evangelist Luke Describes’ Mary and Joseph, and Simeon and Anna ‘in a Twofold Attitude of Movement and Wonder” for Us to Imitate’
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Read MoreBy Regis Martin | While I am not a convert to Catholicism, and cannot therefore ascribe my faith to my colleague Scott Hahn (for whom, nevertheless, I have great affection and respect), if I had been one and…
Read MoreBy Michael Warsaw | Just when we think we have moved on from battles that were won, they once again rear their ugly heads.
The Little Sisters of the Poor find themselves heading to the Supreme Court for…
Read MoreVatican City, Feb 2, 2020 / 06:20 am (CNA).- Pope Francis spoke Sunday about the need for Catholics to be active in going out to announce the faith of Jesus Christ to the world.
“The world needs Christians who let themselves be moved, who never …
Read MoreBy Dominican Father Jordan Schmidt | Sunday, Feb. 2, is the feast of the Presentation of the Lord (Year A). Mass readings: Malachi 3:1-4; Psalm 24:7-10; Hebrews 2:14-18; Luke 2:22-40 or…
Read MoreAre there passages from the Bible that frighten you, or at least make you think twice about yourself and your behaviour? Thomas Merton—a well-known religious figure of a generation ago—was made uneasy by Matthew 6.5: “Amen I say to you, they have received their reward,” words used by Jesus to describe the recognition the Pharisees[…]
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Read MoreA blessed feast of the Presentation to all our readers, which used to, and still may, be called Candlemas, a celebration of the light that is Christ, now revealed to the world, the Lumen gentium, outside of Whom there is only darkness. In the pre-1969 calendar, this day marks the end of the Christmas season, and[…]
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