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Posted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
An eerily silent St. Peter’s Square. A solitary figure in white, limping up the steps of the basilica. That same small, lonely figure, emerging with the monstrance, lifted to bless the world…once, twice, three times. A year ago, this June, my youngest daughter and I had the opportunity to tag along on my husband’s work […]
Read More“Once we take our eyes away from ourselves—from our interests, from our own rights, privileges, ambitions—then we will become clear to see Jesus around us.” (Saint Teresa of Calcutta) Have you fallen victim to the selfie culture? Well, I hav…
Read MoreThe Church’s approach to the means of social communication is fundamentally positive, encouraging. She does not simply stand in judgment and condemn;…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Daily Readings, Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent, News |
Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent Readings: Daniel 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 or 13:41C-62 Psalms 23:1-3A, 3B-4, 5, 6 John 8:1-11
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Posted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Commentary, News |
Judging by the response of many religious leaders, church is a non-essential service. We are capable of taking prudent measures…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | In the News, News |
The date of Easter cannot be transferred, so in countries which have been struck by COVID-19 and restrictions around the…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | In the News, News |
Pope Francis appealed for a global ceasefire on Sunday as countries work to defend against the coronavirus pandemic. “The current…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Commentary, News |
Since it is now impossible for so many people to go to Mass, or even to go to a church…
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | 2020, Alfred Hitchcock, Columns, Dial M for Murder, Heroic Priests and Radiant Nuns, Hitch and Jack in Isolation, How Green Was My Valley, Howard Hawks, I Confess, John Ford, Lifeboat, News, North by Northwest, Notorious, Psycho, Rear Window, rope, Sabotage, Secret Agent, Spellbound, Suspicion, The 39 Steps, The Catholic Thing, The Grapes of Wrath, The Informer, The Quiet Man, To Catch a Thief, Vertigo, Victor Fleming, William Wyler |
Brad Miner: For your time at home during the quarantine, here are a couple of dozen films by two great Catholic filmmakers; Hitchcock and Ford.
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Read MoreHistorically today is the feast of St. John Climacus, a learned abbot and great spiritual director. He was a monk of Mount Sinai and wrote The Ladder to Paradise which described the thirty degrees to religious perfection. It is also the feast of St. Qu…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | News, Quote of the Day |
“Let us break all our unworthy habits and leave behind our worldly lives. Let us carry in ourselves the death of Jesus Christ.” — Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Lent
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2020 | Holy Cross, Local News, Minneapolis, News, Northeast, Spencer Howe |
“We saw a lot of people kneeling in their front windows at their front doors. I think on the whole, people were really appreciative to have a creative idea and a way to stay connected.”
Read MoreBy Daily Mass | During this time, especially during the Lenten season, we wanted to remind you that EWTN broadcasts the daily Mass live at 8 a.m. Eastern from Our Lady of the Angels Chapel on the EWTN campus in Irondale,…
Read MoreBy James Day | In an unprecedented message to the Church and the world, Pope Francis spoke in a near-empty St. Peter’s Square in an extraordinary Urbi et orbi blessing and the imparting of a plenary…
Read MoreBy Matt D’Antuono | I recently wrote a blog about what is more dangerous than the coronavirus. In that piece, I reflected on a statement by Thomas Merton where he said that a single mortal sin is more destructive than a…
Read MoreBy Laura Dittus | Am I a pilgrim or a tourist? Like one of the chief questions one is asked when crossing into another country, “What is the purpose of your visit?” this question gets at the root of why one is making a journey,…
Read MoreIn a letter to an Argentine judge, Pope Francis has insisted that strict measures to control the CO19 epidemic must continue, even at the risk of economic disaster. “It would be said if the opposite was chosen,” he said, charging that this …
Read MoreIn Nocera Inferiore, Italy, police have charged several residents with breaking emergency regulations by holding a prayer service in church. Neighbors reportedly called the police to intervene.
Read MoreIn a rare public disagreement, Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas has dissented from a statement signed by all other Catholic bishops in Texas, supporting Governor Greg Abbott’s plan for setting health-care priorities during the CO19 epidemic.
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