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Posted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Coronavirus, News, Vatican |
Pope Francis appealed for a global ceasefire on Sunday as countries work to defend their populations from the coronavirus pandemic
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Read MoreI happen to be writing this on a Friday evening: for Jews, it is “Erev Yom Shi Shi, “the night before Shabbat”. I happen to know this because many years …
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Read MoreVenezuela saw “more violations to freedom of expression in 2019 than in the last eight years,” the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas recently reported.
Read MoreAt a Mass celebrated in the chapel of Domus Sanctae Marthae on March 28 (video), Pope Francis exhorted priests not to be an elite spiritual class separated from the people. The Pope invited those watching the Mass to pray Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val…
Read More“Will we wait until the entire province of Albay is infected with the virus before the national government acts?” asked Bishop Joel Baylon of Legazpi, who “lamented that at least three Covid-19 patients were placed under home quaranti…
Read MoreCalling for a CO19 “jubilee,” the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples added, “Now we realize that we don’t have enough masks but there are more than enough bullets. We don’t have enough supplies o…
Read More“The situation [in Nigeria], however, varies between different states,” said Archbishop Alfred Martins of Lagos. “Here, gatherings of more than 20 people are banned and, consequently, Masses with people have been suspended.” How…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | A Woman Caught in Adultery, Daily Gospel reflections, Jesus, John 8:1–11, Lent, News, Paul McKibben, Sunday Gospel Reflections |
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff comfort me. (Psalm 23:4) In 2004, a controversy arose in the Indiana community I covered as a newspaper reporter when its fi…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Cei, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Italy, News, Religious Freedom |
The Italian government has issued new regulations for access to religious venues, specifying that weddings and baptisms are permitted for tightly limited groups but that merely going to church is not a legitimate reason to be out of one’s home.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Anthony Esolen, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Benedict Option, conservatism, Featured, fusionism, Gladden Pappin, J.D. Vance, Josh Hawley, Marco Rubio, News, Oren Cass, Patrick Deneen, Politics, Rod Dreher, Sohrab Ahmari, Weekly Headlines |
Christians are in uncharted political territory. Once a formidable force in our politics, the Religious Right is now effectively irrelevant, undermined as much by its own hypocrisy and short-sightedness as by growing secularism. Until recently, most conservative Christians have subscribed to a philosophy known as fusionism: a combination of free-market economics, social traditionalism, and foreign-policy […]
On March 27, Pope Francis presided over “an extraordinary moment of prayer in the time of pandemic, with the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament” (video).
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Abortion, Featured, News, Politics, U.S. Supreme Court, Weekly Headlines |
To those who think that legal abortion means safe abortion, think again. The Supreme Court is currently contemplating important questions surrounding a Louisiana state law requiring hospital admitting privileges for abortionists. Among the amicus briefs submitted to the Court in support of the law are several that outline in compelling detail the health and safety deficiencies of […]
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Arlington, Catholic Charities, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, News |
From telehealth counseling to mobile shower trucks, Catholic non-profits are shifting gears to meet spiking needs and anxieties among the most vulnerable populations in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Catholic Health Association, Catholic social thought, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Father Myles Sheehan, Georgetown University, Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, John Carr, John Monahan, lead, News, Pope Francis, Reyna Guardado, Sister Carol Keehan |
A Georgetown University panel highlighted Catholic social teaching as a touchstone for navigating the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | ambassador, Ambassador Callista Gingrich, Catholic Church, Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, News, Vatican, Vatican diplomacy |
In the middle of the coronavirus lockdown, a group of women ambassadors accredited to the Holy See decided to honor a very British custom last week, with a twist of modernity: a Zoom meeting at tea time.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, Catholic Church, Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, News, papal almoner, Vatican |
While Rome is under lockdown, one person drives hundreds of miles a day through the empty streets of the Italian capital, picking up food from factories and businesses and delivering them personally to the city’s poor.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | News, The Dispatch |
SUN PRAIRIE, Wisconsin — The sign on the sidewalk out front of church was every bit as jarring as the raw March wind. “NO MASSES OR GATHERINGS. DIRECTIVE OF THE BISHOP.” As I walked past […]
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
The soon-to-be-murdered Monsignor Thomas Wells gathered more than a dozen family and friends at an old Irish farmhouse in Garrykennedy, a village smaller than your backyard. I remember the trip as if I unpacked my suitcase an hour ago, There were daily home Masses, riotous late-night storytelling that awakened the cows, and leisurely walks past […]
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Homily of the Day, News |
The scribes and the Pharisees, looking for a chance to trap Jesus, thought that they had found a situation that would serve their purpose perfectly. They thought that they had Jesus caught between the demands of Mosaic law and the law of the occupying Roman forces. If Jesus pardoned the woman caught in adultery, how […]
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