Hundreds of thousands forced to flee as Islamist attacks continue in Burkina Faso (CNS)
The West African nation of 20.3 million (map) is 56% Muslim, 15% Catholic, and 9% Protestant, with 20% adhering to ethnic religions.
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The West African nation of 20.3 million (map) is 56% Muslim, 15% Catholic, and 9% Protestant, with 20% adhering to ethnic religions.
Read MoreThe Justice Department believes that “a Louisville/Jefferson County [Kentucky] Metro Government law, which requires a photographer to photograph same-sex weddings in violation of her religious objections, violates the U.S. Constitution.”
Read MoreBecause of a cold, Pope Francis is following the annual curial Lenten retreat from the Vatican, rather than at the retreat house.
Read MoreFather Alexandre Comte, who works for the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, was last in Rome in mid-February and is being treated in France. As a precaution, France has quarantined all the resident priests at its national church in Rome (th…
Read MoreAccording to the report, the Canadian “government’s proposed changes to assisted suicide will eliminate the requirement that a person’s death be reasonably foreseeable, but the government will not expand the system to include the ment…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 3, 2020 | News, United States |
The Catholic bishops of Minnesota have published guidelines regarding gender identity and Catholic schools, emphasizing the Catholic mission of schools and the Church’s doctrinal teaching on sexuality and identity
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 3, 2020 | News, World News |
The pools have been closed until further notice
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Read MoreReading 1 Is 55:10-11
Thus says the LORD:
Just as from the heavens
the rain and snow come down
And do not return there
till they have watered the earth,
making it fertile and fruitful,
Giving seed to the one who sows
and bread to the one who eats,
S…
Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Msgr. Jordi Bertomeu also visited Chile in 2018, prior to the mass resignation of the nation’s bishops. According to the report, “the Vatican embassy in Mexico City expressly asked victims to come forward to …
Read MoreIn March 2019, Pope Francis ordered the opening of the Vatican’s archives from the pontificate of Venerable Pius XII (1939-58). Bishop Sergio Pagano, prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Archives, said recently that 85 scholars have requested acces…
Read More“The first effect of being infected by the virus of fear is the arid soul, in a state of desolation,” writes Father Antonio Spadaro, SJ. “The first task of a Catholic is, first and foremost, the fight against drying up and withering ……
Read More“We are beginning to glimpse a new discipline that we might call ‘the ethical development of algorithms’ or more simply ‘algor-ethics,’” Pope Francis stated in an address read out at a recent Vatican conference. &ld…
Read More“Since Xi Jinping was appointed CCP General Secretary/ President in 2013, religious persecution has intensified under a government campaign for the ‘sinicization’ of religion,” a new USCCB fact sheet states. After referring to t…
Read More“Food and Agriculture is one key area for #ArtificialIntelligence,” the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life tweeted on March 2. “IBM is taking on that area as its next five-year focus—an efficient, sustainable and inclusive f…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 3, 2020 | Donald J. Trump, Featured, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines |
On Ash Wednesday, the White House released a statement from President Trump. “For Catholics and many other Christians,” it reads, “Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season that concludes with the joyful celebration of Easter Sunday. Today, millions of Christians will be marked on their foreheads with the sign of the cross. The […]
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 3, 2020 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
In an age in which the natural environment is not geography, flora, and fauna but human vulgarity in its limitless forms, it is easy to overlook even its most extreme manifestations. A notable exception is when these occur in the celebration of Holy Mass, where they are as obtrusive as clowns at a funeral. My […]
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 3, 2020 | Cardinal Michael Czerny, Interviews, lead, migrants and refugees, News, Pope Francis, Querida Amazonia |
Jesuit Cardinal Michael Czerny, Under-Secretary of the Migrant sand Refugees Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, has something keeping him up at night: “The challenge of seeking to engage with truth in spite of the falsehoods that spread so rapidly in modern social media.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 3, 2020 | Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Dorothy Day, Interviews, lead, Martin Doblmeier, News, Peter Maurin, Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story |
The director of a new documentary on Dorothy Day says the Catholic activist is one of the most courageous and inspiring women of the 20th century.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 3, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in Africa, Church in Scotland, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, lead, News, Rape, SCIAF, Scotland, sexual violence |
Every year, it’s estimated that over 400,000 women are raped every year in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This Lent, Scottish Catholics are raising money to help the victims of sexual violence in the country.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 3, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in Africa, Elections, Faure Gnassingbé, lead, News, Togo |
An archbishop has been placed under house arrest in Togo after calling for nationwide protests of the country’s Feb. 22 presidential election.
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