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Cardinal Marc Ouellet, PSS, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops since 2010, has written a letter to Mother Chiara Agnese Acquadro, abbess of the Protomonastery of St. Clare in Assisi.
Read MoreOn March 25, Portugal and Spain were also consecrated to the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart.
Read MoreAt a Mass celebrated in the chapel of Domus Sanctae Marthae on March 26 (video), Pope Francis preached on Exodus 32:7-14, the first reading of the day. The Pope invited those watching the Mass to pray St. Alphonsus Liguori’s act of spiritual com…
Read More(During this time of crisis, we thought we would re-post this piece by Father Scott Murray, on the benefits of the Rosary on this memorial. I did not realize that Leo XIII’s ’88 encyclicals’ are the same number as keys on a piano, a veritable symphony, if you will. Anon, lege et orate, fratres et[…]
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Read MoreRecently I got drawn into a Facebook discussion about how downtrodden women have been throughout the ages – always at the hands of the “male patriarchy”. There was much feminist …
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 27, 2020 | Daily Gospel reflections, Jesus, Lent, Living with Christ, News, Sunday Gospel Reflections, Terri Mifek |
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted. (Psalm 34:19) I was feeling discouraged after a speaker I know told a story that put women in a very negative light. Even though he later apologized, I wondered if he really understood the effect his words had or…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 27, 2020 | News, Pilgrimage, Pilgrimages |
Here you will see the streets of Jerusalem compared a month ago and today. After a gorgeous video showing the inside of the Tomb, watch the closing of the Holy Sepulchre. Watch the sad moment when the doors are locked and the custodian, my friend Omar, walks away. The movie was taken by my friend […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 27, 2020 | Catholic Living, England, Featured, Juan Donoso Cortés, News, Our Lady of Walsingham, Protestant Reformation, Weekly Headlines |
This face, for centuries a memory, Non est species, neque decor, Expressionless, expresses God: it goes Past castled Sion. She knows what God knows, Not Calvary’s Cross nor crib at Bethlehem Now, and the world shall come to Walsingham. Frederick Wilhelmsen called Juan Donoso Cortés the Augustine of the nineteenth century: the chronicler of civilization’s […]
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 27, 2020 | Bishops, Canon Law, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Italy, lead, Mass, News, News Analysis, Poland |
In real life, my experience is that many Catholics recognize the competing values at stake and don’t envy bishops who have to make virtually unprecedented judgment calls.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 27, 2020 | Argentina, Church in the Americas, Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, News, Pope Francis, President Alberto Fernandez, slum priests |
Argentina’s “slum priests” are joining forces with the national government to help flatten the curve of coronavirus, particularly in the country’s 4,500 shanty towns and illegal settlements.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 27, 2020 | Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, News, Ukraine, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
As more cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus are being registered in Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has said that he will lend ecclesial properties as hospitals if the need should arise.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 27, 2020 | Church, Featured, Henry VIII, Joseph Pearce, News, Our Lady of Walsingham, St. John Fisher, St. Thomas More, Weekly Headlines |
Almost 700 years ago, King Richard II dedicated England as the “Dowry of Mary.” On March 29, 2020, England will be rededicated to Mary. In light of this historic event, numerous articles have been published of late on the topic. These articles address what the rededication is and why it matters to English Catholics. But […]
CNA Staff, Mar 27, 2020 / 01:00 am (CNA).- Catholic leaders in Croatia say they don’t know God’s plans, after a 5.2 magnitude earthquake rocked the Croatian capital of Zagreb the morning of March 22, causing dozens of injuries and at least …
Read MoreI read an article on Albert Camus’ book The Plague recently. It said, in part: Like his hero, Camus gives us hope. He believes that the deadly crisis will encourage solidarity and bring out the […]
Read MoreCNA Staff, Mar 27, 2020 / 12:01 am (CNA).- Fr. Julian Carron has been re-elected president of Communion and Liberation for another six years. The Central Diaconia of the Catholic fraternal organization voted unanimously to re-elect Carron March 21.
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Birmingham, Ala., Mar 26, 2020 / 11:01 pm (CNA).- At a time when Catholic Masses have been closed to the public and efforts to stem the coronavirus epidemic dominate the news, EWTN Radio is temporarily rebranding its EWTN Radio Classics programming as EWTN Radio Essentials to provide more broadcasts of the Mass, devotionals, and spiritual reflections.
“Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures,” Jack Williams, general manager of the EWTN Global Catholic Radio Network, told CNA March 26.
Under the program changes, Mass will be broadcast eight times a day, every two hours from 8 a.m. through midnight Eastern Time.
EWTN Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael P. Warsaw said March 25 that the change aims “to assist listeners struggling to cope with the closing of so many churches due to the coronavirus pandemic.”
This will make EWTN Radio Essentials “a one-stop source for Mass and devotions,” Warsaw said. “As people of faith know, prayer is what will get us all through this difficult time,” he added.
Williams said that in the wake of church closures, “the outcry for the Mass from the faithful was loud and immediate.”
“In times of trouble our greatest recourse is always to Our Lord and the greatest prayer of the Church is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass,” he said.
Williams said the programming will be “a resource heavily grounded in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Rosaries, the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Stations of the Cross and the wisdom of spiritual icons like Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Fr. Benedict Groeschel, Fr. Andrew Apostoli, Fr. George Rutler and, of course, Mother Angelica.”
Both EWTN Global Catholic Radio and EWTN Radio Essentials are available through the EWTN phone app in the “Live Streams” section. The channels can also be found on the website www.ewtn.com, in the Radio section’s Listen Live page, under the “United States” tab.
The programming change came March 25.
Williams said the change replaces some more catechetical offerings to content aiding prayer and devotion.
“The Mass and devotionals were always front and center on EWTN Radio Classics but not nearly in the concentration they are on EWTN Radio Essentials,” he said.
Williams said radio has its own unique qualities for Catholic broadcasting.
“Radio in general is an intimate medium,” he said. “It lends itself to the most intimate of all relationships, that of the Creator of the Universe and creatures he loves above all. EWTN Radio is geared toward establishing, building, nurturing and ultimately sharing that relationship.”
Williams said EWTN programming has a spiritual role in a crisis like the coronavirus pandemic.
“Crisis can weaken the soul. If we’re not there, especially in time of crisis, the door is wide open for the evil one to gain a foothold in the lives of those enduring the crisis,” he said.
He also emphasized the benefits EWTN Radio listeners find.
“We hear from people at every stage of their pilgrimage here on earth, from the unchurched to the non-Catholic to the fallen away Catholic,” Williams said. “Our programming has the potential to speak a word of encouragement to anyone at any stage.”
“We evangelize the non-believer and fallen away Catholic, catechize and encourage the Catholic faithful and hopefully spur them on to lives of heroic virtue according to their individual state in life,” he added.
For Williams, the programming will help show “that regardless of how secular the culture becomes or how much the human family turns their back on God, the truth about Him and the necessity for recourse to Him is written within the human heart.”
“Sadly, it all too often takes great tragedy before we’ll acknowledge that truth,” he told CNA.
The format change will remain in place until the coronavirus crisis diminishes.
Besides the EWTN Mobile App and EWTN website, EWTN radio services are available on SiriusXM Satellite Radio Channel 130, iHeart Radio, and 380 AM and FM radio station affiliates. EWTN Radio is available on TuneIn Radio Apps, Roku, Amazon Fire, YouTube and Facebook as well as streaming platforms like Apple TV, Amazon Echo and Google Play.
EWTN Global Catholic Network is now in its 38th year. Its 11 global TV channels are broadcast in multiple languages to over 300 million households in more than 145 countries and territories.
Its news services include Catholic News Agency and the National Catholic Register. Its book division is EWTN Publishing.
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 27, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
On the feast of St. Joseph, Pope Francis invited the entire world to pray the rosary at 9pm Rome time, in union with him, for the current pandemic situation we find ourselves in. The rosary is a powerful prayer. In Fatima, Our Lady said pray the rosary every day for peace in the world. I’m […]
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 27, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
In Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus turns mourning into joy when He raises Lazarus from the dead. Gospel (Read Jn 11:1-45) Today’s Gospel gives us a story about Jesus raising the dead to life, something He did on at least two other occasions (see Lk 7:11:17, Mk 5:21-23). This episode, however, is profoundly different from those in three […]
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