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Posted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Coronavirus, Free Access, News, United States |
Here’s what sacraments are still available in US dioceses
The post Can I confess? Or be anointed? Here’s what’s suspended – or not – in your diocese appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MoreDuring Mass celebrated in the chapel of Domus Sanctae Marthae on April 1 (video), Pope Francis preached on John 8:31: “If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciple.” The Pontiff also prayed for those “who work in the media…
Read MoreThe Vicar General for Vatican City State, Cardinal Angelo Comastri, made his remarks as he recalled Pope St. John Paul II 15 years after his death.
Read MoreAt the conclusion of his April 1 general audience, Pope Francis recalled his predecessor Pope St. John Paul II, who died on April 2, 2005.
Read More“This is the time for all of us to demonstrate our joint commitment to the European project and to common European values of solidarity and unity, instead of capitulating to fear and nationalism,” Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, preside…
Read MoreThe Congregation for Divine Worship has composed a new votive Mass “in the time of pandemic”. An Xin says the Chinese government is continuing to persecute house churches amid the …
The post Morning Catholic must-reads: 02/04/2020 appeared first on Catholic Herald.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Art & Culture, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
We are living in very confused and confusing times. The pestilence is upon us and many of us find ourselves in lockdown, under house arrest, and, if we live alone, in solitary confinement. Worse, at least for Catholics, is the fact that we have been locked out of our churches and exiled from the sacraments. […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Abortion, America Magazine, Church, Cyrus Habib, Democratic Party, Featured, NARAL, News, Society of Jesus (Jesuits), Weekly Headlines |
Governor Jay Inslee of Washington State followed in the steps of New York and California to issue a statewide stay-at-home order, effective March 24, for a period of two weeks. In the midst of a complete shutdown of economic and social life and the rising number of cases and deaths in the state of Washington, Catholics […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Art & Culture, C. S. Lewis, Coronavirus, Education, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
England declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, just two days after the Nazis invaded Poland. It became a live question, with the Michaelmas term about to begin, whether universities in England should continue to carry out their essential task of learning. For at universities (and any educational institution) students learn (presumably!), and they […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Associated Press, Australia, Cardinal George Pell, Church in Asia/Oceania, clerical sexual abuse, News, Secretariat for the Economy, trial |
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s highest court will deliver its ruling next week on whether to overturn the convictions of Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic convicted of child sex abuse. The 78-year-old Pell is one year into a six-year sentence for molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne’s St. Patrick’s
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Abbondio, Alessandro Manzoni, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Cristoforo, Graham Greene, I Promessi Sposi, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Priests, The Power and the Glory, Vittorio Messori |
Because much of the novel unfolds against the backdrop of an outbreak of the plague, it’s no surprise Alessandro Manzoni’s famous work “I Promessi Sposi” has been much-cited over the past month, as Italy has grappled with the highest coronavirus death count in the world
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Church in Asia, Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, medicine, News, Taiwan, Vatican |
As Italy continues to reel from high death counts related to the COVID-19 coronavirus and basic sanitary supplies hard to come by, the Taiwanese Embassy to the Holy See has made several donations to both Vatican offices and religious orders in a show of solidarity.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Association of U.S. Catholic Priests, Catholic University of America, Church in the US, COVID-19, lead, News, Path to Peace Foundation, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, University of Notre Dame, USCCB |
A number of major Catholic events scheduled for the spring and early summer have been postponed or cancelled.
Read MoreBy Tito Edwards | Leaving Thomas Merton Behind, No gods Before Me – Rob Marco at Catholic Spiritual Direction +1
The Secular World Needs Good Catholic Fiction – Alicia Connolly-Lohr, J.D., at Catholic…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Abraham, Fr. Anthony Schueller SSS, Jesus, Jesus and Abraham, John 8:51-59, Lent, Living with Christ, News, Sunday Gospel Reflections |
Both Abraham and Jesus stepped out in faith when God called. Abraham left his homeland and everything that was familiar, trusting that God would bring him safely to his journey’s end, wherever that might be. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus surrender…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News |
Each year as a priest I look forward to the celebration of Holy Week. The same is true this year, even though it will be a somber Holy Week, one like none other. Maybe your family has Holy Week or Easter traditions. How can we still mark Holy Week with faith and devotion during such […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Anointing of the Sick, Coronavirus, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Sacraments |
For all intents and purposes, it appears that this pandemic has been the catalyst leading the Church into exile. For all of the discussion about the domestic church and everything we can do at home, the reality is—based on salvation history—we are in exile. The length is unknown, but this fact should be like a […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Calendar & Seasons, Catholic Church, charity, compassion, Faith, Featured, Jesus Christ, Light of the World, Living the Faith, News, Regular Feature, salt of the earth, Scripture, suffering |
In 2005 while undergoing chemotherapy, I was sitting in an uncomfortable recliner on the sixth floor of the medical facility. An IV dripped poison into my veins that would simultaneously cure me of the cancer in my body, and wreak havoc on it, sending …
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Sophia Excerpts, Stations of the Cross, Way of the Cross |
Editor’s note: The following is the first station of the Way of the Cross by Archbishop Georg Ganswein. We also recommend “Praying the Stations of the Cross Amidst COVID-19” by Kathleen Beckman. We will offer these and other reflections on the Stations in hopes of preparing for Good Friday and, ultimately, Easter. We pray for […]
Posted by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Commentary, News |
A new survey finds that the coronavirus outbreak is having profound impacts on the personal lives of Americans in a…
The post Americans pray but stay away from religious services due to COVID-19 appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
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