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Police in Chincoteague, Virginia, had issued a summons to the pastor of Lighthouse Fellowship Church for “having 16 people at a worship service on April 5 in violation of the governor’s executive order. The violation is a class one misdem…
Read More“Even in times of emergency, when reasonable and temporary restrictions are placed on rights, the First Amendment and federal statutory law prohibit discrimination against religious institutions and religious believers,” said Attorney Gener…
Read MoreCardinal Peter Turkson is Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
Read MoreThe Jesuit began their mission at San Antón de Carlos in 1567 but left the site two years later. “We now can confirm what archaeologists and historians have long suspected: the location of the fort and the capital of the Calusa was Mound Key…
Read MoreMost seminaries discussed in the article sent all their seminarians home; one seminary allowed seminarians to remain, on condition that they not leave the campus.
Read MoreThe virus has taken its toll on Maryknoll and the Missionaries of Charity.
Read MoreFra’ Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, 75, led the Sovereign Order of Malta from 2017 until his death.
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Ecclesia semper reformanda est. So goes the old saying – Ecclesia semper reformanda est – the Church, always in need of reform – applies now, perhaps, more than ever. And one of her greatest reformers was not a Pope, nor a bishop, nor a man, but a simple, unlettered woman of great holiness, character and[…]
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Read MoreSometimes it seems like nothing is solid. Everything, even within the Church, seems to be up for debate. Is this true? How solid is Catholic doctrine? On what basis can we trust that it won’t shift?
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Reading 1 Acts 8:1b-8
There broke out a severe persecution of the Church in Jerusalem,
and all were scattered
throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria,
except the Apostles.
Devout men buried Stephen and made a loud lament over him.
Saul, mean…
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2020 | Art & Culture, Catholic Living, Church, Coronavirus, Featured, News, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Joseph, Weekly Headlines |
“All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven.” This passage from Ecclesiastes—about there being a time to be born and a time to die, a time to cast away stones and a time to gather them together, and vanity, and dust—well, it’s pretty grim stuff if you take it […]
On April 28, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced the gradual reopening of schools and some stores but said that “no religious ceremonies will be allowed before June 2,” Barron’s reported. The French bishops said they would abid…
Read More“Making the appropriate adaptations, other bishops can use it to renew the consecration of their dioceses, pastors their parishes, and families or individuals their own households,” according to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, which …
Read MoreAs Archbishop of Warsaw from 1948 until his death in 1981, and primate of Poland, Cardinal Wyszynski was a focal point of Catholic resistance to Communism.
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There is a great deal of division among Catholics across the globe today regarding the way in which the hierarchy have dealt with the pandemic. Some feel that by closing churches and forbidding the Sacraments to the faithful, those bishops who have done so have betrayed the flock. Others believe that they are showing prudence […]
Archbishop Aldo Pagotto, 70, resigned in 2016 following an allegation of a relationship with an 18-year-old male. He was the coauthor of a book criticizing aspects of the 2014 Synod of Bishops on the family.
Read More“Catholic hospitals are under unremitting attack—from prestigious medical journals, media, and lawyers in courtrooms,” writes Wesley J. Smith, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. “The attac…
Read MoreReaction Against ‘Fakenews’ on Wartime Pontiff in Times of the Coronavirus
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Read MoreGiven that he was one of the principal planners and prominent leaders of last October’s special Synod on Amazonia, Cardinal Claudio Hummes, OFM, is understandably enthusiastic about the results of that exercise. Indeed, the enthusiasm […]
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 29, 2020 | Archdiocese of New York, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Worker Movement, Church in the US, Dorothy Day, New York City, News, saints and martyrs |
The sainthood cause for Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, believes it could have all of the documentation prepared at some point next year to send to the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes.
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