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“It has been a very painful experience for all of them,” Auxiliary Bishop Mario Dorsonville of Washington, chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Migration, said following a visit with 10 detainees. “It is important to have th…
Read More“The R.I. Department of Health is monitoring the individuals who went on the trip [to Eastern Europe] and will make appropriate decisions depending on the outcome of the monitoring,” said Dan Richard, principal of St. Raphael Academy in Paw…
Read More“As before [the decision], abortion will only be allowed if a mother’s life is at risk, if a fetus is malformed or if the pregnancy is a result of rape,” the Reuters news agency reported.
Read MoreThe Eritrean regime—one of the most repressive in the world—recently barred Ethiopian Catholic prelates from entering the country. Last year, the regime took over Catholic schools.
Read MoreThe Commission assists the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in examining doctrinal questions. The new document, the fruit of five years of discussion, is entitled “The Reciprocity between Faith and Sacraments in the Sacramental Economy….
Read More“Though religious belief in the general population tends to fall with increased education, that phenomenon does not explain or account for the observed magnitude of the differences,” according to James Lindgren, professor of law at Northwes…
Read MoreFather Pietro Bovati, SJ, Professor of Exegesis of the Old Testament at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, is leading this year’s Lenten retreat for the Pope and the Roman Curia.
Read More350 Protestant and Orthodox communities are members of the World Council of Churches. Pope Francis made an ecumenical pilgrimage to Geneva in 2018 for the World Council of Churches’ 70th anniversary.
Read MorePyotr Tolstoy, deputy chairman of the lower house of the Russian parliament, added, “For me, the most important [proposed constitutional amendment] is his proposal to enshrine in basic law the concept of marriage as a union between a man and a wo…
Read MoreBishop Georg Batzing, who succeeds Cardinal Reinhard Marx, has said, “I believe it does not hurt the Church when priests are free to choose whether they wish to live in a marriage or celibate.” He has also said that “the exclusion of …
Read MoreLondon, England, Dec 23, 2020 / 03:01 am (CNA).- For years, the dramatic paintings of Artemisia Gentileschi, a Catholic artist of the Counter-Reformation, were misattributed to male artists – most often her father, Orazio, who was also a painter….
Read MoreThe president of Catholic Answers shares insights into the reality of the Crusades to help the Christian who is confronted with that apologetics conversation-stopper: “What about the Crusades?”
Cy Kellett:
How to handle the challenge of th…
Reading 1 Jon 3:1-10
The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
“Set out for the great city of Nineveh,
and announce to it the message that I will tell you.”
So Jonah made ready and went to Nineveh,
according to the LORD’s bidding.
Now Nineve…
‘The cold the Holy Father was diagnosed with recently is running its course, with no symptoms related to other pathologies’
Read MoreThe US bishops founded Catholic Relief Services in 1943, and the majority of the members of its board of directors are bishops. In responding to the coronavirus, the organization announced that it is “gearing up its response in countries like Af…
Read MoreOn the evening of March 3, the day of the Super Tuesday primary elections, Bishop Richard Stika of Knoxville wrote, “How can a political party state that their election will bring back morality to the United States when the party is now in favor …
Read MoreJesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny, Undersecretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, said that “I haven’t received any responses myself” to a recent request to EU bishops to a…
Read MoreArchbishop Charles Scicluna and Msgr. Jordi Bertomeu have been sent to Mexico to investigate the sexual abuse of minors. They also visited Chile in 2018, prior to the mass resignation of the nation’s bishops.
Read MorePope Francis devoted his second encyclical, Laudato si’, to care for our common home. “The cry of the earth and the cry of the poor cannot continue,” he said as he announced the May 16-24 initiative, which commemorates the encyclical…
Read MoreThe Claim: The Bible describes fantastic, mythical beings—men who lived to be nearly a thousand years old, giants who walked the earth, and creatures like unicorns and dragons. This shows that the Bible is just a book of myths and can’t be trusted to i…
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