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When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until an opportune time (Lk. 4:13). ⧾ On Ash Wednesday we began our observance of the holy season of Lent. By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert (The Catechism of[…]
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Read MoreReading 1 Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7
The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground
and blew into his nostrils the breath of life,
and so man became a living being.
Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,
and placed there the man whom …
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, hispanic Catholic, Latino Catholic, Legionaries of Christ, Lent, News, the pro-life movement |
As a new Lenten season begins, Father Jorge Obregon from Houston is encouraging young Latino Catholics to participate in a new spiritual campaign titled Life Savers.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Child pornography, Church in the US, Internet, News, Sexual abuse, USCCB |
It is bad enough there are adults who sexually abuse children and minors. What makes it worse is that the abusers take video and still images of the abuse and share them online with their fellow abusers.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Dominicans, Gregorian Chant, News, sacred music, Switzerland |
Dominican Brothers Stefan Ansinger and Alexandre Frezzato are teaching people to sing 800-year-old Gregorian chant through free weekly lessons on their YouTube channel called OPChant.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | Cardinal John Henry Newman, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland, Georgetown University, News |
In 1830, John Henry Newman, then a 29-year-old tutor at the University of Oxford, described himself in a letter to his close friend, John William Bowden, as “a dull, staid Tory, unfit for these smart times.”
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | Arizona, Associated Press, Church in the US, Court cases, News, Satanic Temple, Satanism |
The Satanic Temple has appealed a judge’s decision ruling the city of Scottsdale did not discriminate against the temple when city officials blocked the group from giving an invocation before a council meeting in 2016.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | 2020 election, archbishop bernard hebda, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, faith and politics, News, Super Tuesday |
The Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis is asking priests in Minnesota to forgo voting in the presidential primary election on Tuesday over concerns about the privacy of voter party preferences.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | Commentary, lead, Lent, News, Spirituality |
Every year, as the Church prepares to begin Lent, the pope releases a letter to assist the faithful in having a holy and fruitful season. The Lenten message often conveys some area of spiritual or moral theology that is close to the heart of the pontiff and is something that
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | Bishops Conference of England and Wales, Catholic Church, children, Church in England and Wales, Church in UK and Ireland, Church of England, Great Britain, lead, News, Poverty, UK government, United Kingdom |
Catholic leaders are urging the UK government to drop a two-child limit on benefits as a new budget is about to be announced.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | Italy, lead, Lent, News, News Analysis, Pontifical North American College, priest shortage, Rome, station churches |
There’s a strong case that some priests currently in Rome could be better utilized somewhere else. Nonetheless, experience over the years suggests there are at least three basic reasons why a bit of Roman seasoning often has a positive effect on priests, perhaps especially Americans.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | Italy, lead, Lent, News, News Analysis, Pontifical North American College, priest shortage, Rome, station churches |
There’s a strong case that some priests currently in Rome could be better utilized somewhere else. Nonetheless, experience over the years suggests there are at least three basic reasons why a bit of Roman seasoning often has a positive effect on priests, perhaps especially Americans.
Read MoreBy Tito Edwards | Where Was Mary Assumed Into Heaven? – Msgr. Charles Pope at Our Sunday Visitor +1
Do We Get A Second Chance? – Fr. Joseph Gill at Ignitum Today +1
Live Perpetual Adoration Of The…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | Abstinence, Apologetics Corner, detachment, Discipline, fasting, Featured, Gospel, Into the Deep, Jef Murray, moderation, News, Prayer & Spiritual Life, Scripture, self-denial, temperance, Virtue |
Lent has begun, so I thought we should revisit self-denial. Fasting and other forms of self-denial, as spiritual practices of materially subduing and controlling the physical appetites of the body, help us, by God’s grace, to enable the soul to mo…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | Daily Readings, First Sunday of Lent, News |
First Sunday of Lent Readings: Genesis 2:7-9, 3:1-7 Psalms 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 17 Romans 5:12-19 or 5:12, 17-19 Matthew 4:1-11
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Posted by bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | 2020, Anne Frank, Cardinal Robert Sarah, Columns, Elie Wiesel's Night, Elizabeth A. Mitchell, From the Depths of Our Hearts, Holocaust, holocaustum, Jesus Christ, Juliek and His Violin, Mary of Bethany, Mother Teresa, News, Otto Frank, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Shoah, Sister Benedicta of the Cross, St. Edith Stein |
Elizabeth A. Mitchell: Play the strains of your life to an audience whose goodness lies in their being. Soul speaks to soul through beauty.
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | News, St. Albinus, Today's Saint |
Albinus, also known as Aubin, was born to a noble family in Brittany. From his youth Albinus was fervent in his piety. He decided to be a monk, and so in his twenties entered the monastic life at a place then called Cincillac. (Later the name was changed to St. Aubin’s in his honor.) At […]
The scene of the temptation, which opens the public life of Jesus, declares in the Gospels in a very forceful manner the great change in our lives that He introduces into the world by His work of redemption. Where Adam fell, Christ, the new Head of hum…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | News, Nota in Brevis |
A happy First Sunday of Lent – we hope you enjoy the Lenten reflections. As well, a joyous Leap Year to one and all, the only time when, in Ireland, so custom goes, a woman may propose to a man, a custom that may soon be outlawed in our transgendered world. Leap years were standardized[…]
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Read MoreTracy Christianson spends her days and nights with the angels and saints. The suburban-Seattle artist’s time is consumed with lives of virtue, suffering, perseverance, and grace. Lives of virgins, martyrs, confessors, mothers, fathers, and priests. […..
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