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Posted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2020 | Catalyst, Features, March Issue 2020, News |
On January 3, the CBS affiliate in St. Petersburg, Florida, WTSP, posted on its website a news story that read, “Former Sarasota Bishop Charged with Sexually Battering Child.”It was about a former bishop at the Westcoast Center for Human Development in…
Read MoreIndications for Paschal Celebrations in Eastern Catholic Churches
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2020 | Catalyst, Features, March Issue 2020, News |
Let’s say you are a reporter who detests the Catholic Church (there are more than a few out there), and would like to do an article that reflects badly on it. You come across a story that may qualify, but it is rather routine: it is about high school b…
Read MoreBy Regis Martin | When you get right down to it, reaching into the very bottom of the barrel of faith, what are you likely to find…
Read MoreCatholic dioceses around the world are preparing for a Holy Week of empty churches and virtual liturgies — and Easter Masses with empty pews — amid widespread global shutdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19.
“We’ll hold Holy Week no matter what,…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2020 | Catalyst, Features, March Issue 2020, News |
The birth control pill became commercially available in 1960, and in 1973 abortion was legalized. Those on the left who have been pushing for a libertine culture have won the PR battle on contraception (most Americans are okay with it), but they have l…
Read MoreBy Jimmy Akin | We are celebrating the solemnity of the Annunciation.
This day celebrates the appearance of the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary to announce of the birth of Christ.
What’s going on and why is this day…
Posted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2020 | News, Pope and Holy See |
This Feast Day of the Annunciation, Holy Father Appeals for Faithful to Join Him at Midday #PreghiamoInsieme #WeprayTogether
The post ‘We Turn to the Father as Confident Children’–Pope’s ‘Pater Noster’ Prayed With World’s Christians to End Coronavirus Pandemic appeared first on ZENIT – English.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2020 | Latest News Releases, News |
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on why pro-abortion activists are a threat to public health: Should abortions be considered elective surgery and therefore not be permitted during the coronavirus pandemic, or are they an essential health…
Read MoreGuaranteeing the Exercise of the ‘Petrine Ministry’
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Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Lord's Prayer, News, Pope Francis, Vatican |
Joined by Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant church leaders and faithful from around the world, Pope Francis led the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer, imploring God’s mercy on humanity amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Read MoreBy John Clark | Saint Bernard of Clairvaux writes that when Saint Gabriel announced to Mary that she had been chosen to be the Mother of God, it was as though the angels in Heaven held their breath waiting for her reply.
Prior…
Read MoreBy K.V. Turley | “Mary is the Gate through which Christ entered this world!” —St. Ambrose
Today is the Feast of the Annunciation.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes the Annunciation as “inaugurat[ing] ‘the fu…
Read MoreBy Joseph Pronechen | “Happy New Year!” is what we would have celebrated along with the Feast of the Annunciation on March 25 if we were living some centuries ago. Back then, the Annunciation also marked the start of the New…
Read MoreBy Angelo Stagnaro | It doesn’t take a great deal to convince me to indulge in anything sweet. In fact, I learned a long time ago that for the sake of the welfare of all around me, it’s best that I don’t give up chocolate, cake…
Apostolic Administrator of Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem
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Read MoreBy Father Raymond J. de Souza | Just two months ago, when Italy was still doing normal things, the government designated March 25 as “Dante Day” to honor the “father” of the Italian language…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2020 | #FultonFridays, Feasts, News |
Excerpt from Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s book, The World’s First Love. The modern age, which gives primacy to sex, justifies promiscuity and divorce on the grounds that love is by its nature free—which, indeed, it is. All love is free love, in a certain sense. To be devoid of love is of the essence of hell. […]
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Read MoreBy Father Gladstone Stevens | Recently I read Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance and I have been meditating upon it ever since.
The book is a memoir of sorts describing the author’s journey from…
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